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Post by SA Hunter on Mar 9, 2018 23:50:15 GMT 10
If you’re checking the perimeter and you see three or four armed men cutting the fence, there’s a clear threat. In that situation, opening fire is an option you’re going to have to consider in a hurry. But it’s not always going to be so clear-cut. What if a woman with a couple of young kids, all three of them looking tired and hungry, turn up at your door asking if you can spare them a meal? Are you really going to shoot them on sight? www.askaprepper.com/what-do-you-do-when-someone-asks-for-food-in-a-crisis/ |
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Post by doglovingjim on Mar 10, 2018 0:40:21 GMT 10
If one were to allow stragglers entry into their enclosure for any food provided they would have to work for it, the one who doesn't work doesn't eat. That sounds like the fair thing to do right?
Of course it depends on how much supplies you have, how desperate for food these people are and the amount of people you have to look after (family always comes first)
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Post by Morgo on Mar 10, 2018 8:58:51 GMT 10
"No sorry, we just ate the last of our dogs and we have nothing else left. My family are all inside really sick, can YOU help us?"
Though if people are knocking on your door asking for food, then you have already failed in some way and you need to address that.
Survival of the fittest. Its a cold hard truth learnt through evolution, the weak do not survive. Your priority is YOU and yours.
Nice guys finish last, A holes win (seems to be the way of the world in general). People remember the nice guy that gave them food, (yeah that guys got food, he gave us some. Go try there we are going back later) it gets around and they and oters will come for more.
People don't really talk anout the A hole who didn't and if they do its to say "don't bother with that A hole other there, we already tried"
Every time you give away your supplies your putting yourself and your family one step closer to failure and death.
Everyone would like to be able to help others when they need it but unless your in a position where feeding extra people long term is not an issue then you just can't do it.
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Post by tomatoes on Mar 10, 2018 11:45:39 GMT 10
Some of the comments for the article were interesting.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 10, 2018 14:23:07 GMT 10
Seems sensible before committing to any course of action ... do what you do in real life right now: talk to them and scope them out. They might turn out to be useful and productive. If not ... move them along by spreading the hope inducing rumor of a "well stocked emergency camp about 50km down the road".
Has anyone ever suggested the medieval option to this oft repeated scenario? Kill them all, drag their bodies down the road, gut them, spread their entrails all over the place, hack off their lower jaws and impale the gutted, jawless bodies on spikes as a terrible warning and deterrent to others? (I've seen that done in a movie - I reckon it'd be effective.)
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Post by Peter on Mar 10, 2018 20:12:02 GMT 10
Seems sensible before committing to any course of action ... do what you do in real life right now: talk to them and scope them out. They might turn out to be useful and productive. If not ... move them along by spreading the hope inducing rumor of a "well stocked emergency camp about 50km down the road". Has anyone ever suggested the medieval option to this oft repeated scenario? Kill them all, drag their bodies down the road, gut them, spread their entrails all over the place, hack off their lower jaws and impale the gutted, jawless bodies on spikes as a terrible warning and deterrent to others? (I've seen that done in a movie - I reckon it'd be effective.) Point 1 - sending them 50km away - is great for just about any situation I can think of. Point 2 - heads on stakes - would be what I'd do if it was a complete and permanent downfall that has no hope of recovery (I'm talking "zombie apocalypse" here), and even then only if I had extremely serious defensive capacity (in terms of all of the following: geography, personnel, weapons, ammunition, plus the capacity of watering and feeding ourselves for an extended period). This is because of the old saying: "There's always a bigger fish". I'd prefer any potential looters to think we're not worth worrying about. |
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Post by jonasparker on Mar 11, 2018 1:23:23 GMT 10
This is why your local church should have a "food pantry". You donate to the food pantry and the pantry doles out (or not) the food to the weary travelers. This is the mode suggested by James Rawles.
There's more inherent problems than just giving food to the mother with kids. She probably doesn't have pots, plates, or utensils either which means that whatever you give her, you're probably going to have to cook, then serve, then do the cleanup.
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