Could You Turn Friends/Family/People Away When the SHTF?, page 2

reply to post by Expat888

will do as always have..
help out those who need it.

but stay in a group or allow a group to stay with me.. no thanks never been keen on crowds and I enjoy my solitude far from the insanity of the world...

You touched a chord........ I have always helped people and choose to think I always will. I also can see giving needy people enough to carry them on their journey to elsewhere, and then turning them away. As I said earlier, hard decisions. We will not win the day personally if we sacrifice our humanity in the process.

However, I will defend with vigor those that seek to take our stores by force. In a sense, people like that do some of us a service -- they define themselves and make it easier for some of us to react in a measured and appropriate manner.

I don't begruge those that have chosen to not prepare; perhaps they didn't have or acknowledge the information, or perhaps they were disatvantaged. People that are willing to work for their entrance, they can possibly be admitted. These kind of situations created undercurrents of resentment -- not unlike the rallys against TPTB that exist today, except on a more localized scale. Who will be the 'new elite'? Hopefully, people will choose to embrace another system -- one more like where I grew up in northern Idaho -- a cooperative, where people worked their tails off and bartered their goods for things they wanted. We all specialized -- some raised cattle, others farmed, some grew alfalfa and other feed, some raised horses, some hunted, and of course, there were those (seems like about half of the population) that embraced the American dream and worked hard in offices and other blue/white collar jobs and purchased their goods.

People with skills that benefit the group will also be able to "pay" their way.

This all makes my heart ache a bit, thinking about it. I've pondered this scenario much of my life. I'm not certain my ancestral skills of flint-knapping is really applicable any longer. I actually prefer cherts and chalcedony -- they are more difficult to shape, but harder and more resilient to use. No, in these modern post-apocolyptic times, we will scavenge for things that used to be fabricated. A road sign becomes a bunch of broadheads.

I hope I will remember my humanity when the times comes and think of people kindly. That doesn't mean I'll be a soft touch for the con.