Paramedicpete:

My concern is NOT that all people should think like me, and I love the remark attributed to General Patton. As I stated in the first example, I would help the unprepared or uninitiated.

My concern is that people who ridicule good prevention ideas that might help them and others tend to influence fence sitters on the subject that will be swayed to their way of thinking. These same people usually figure someone will always be there if they get into trouble.

One of our threads was that "ONE IN FOUR UNPREPARED", or something to that effect. The consensus on that thread seemed to be that one in four was overly optimistic. If one person has enough rations for 3 days, and they have to share them with three more people, in simple math that comes out to about to 18 hours of rations for the four or them. If one of those people had ridiculed the idea of preparedness and had not changed the mind of only one fence sitter you might have had two people of that four prepared and assuming a 3 day ration supply each, you would have 6 days of rations for four people which in simple math would be 36 hours of rations for four people or twice the amount. If you then further eliminate the nay sayer, you have 6 days of rations for three people, or 48 hours of rations. Under those circumstances, I have no sorrow for the person who condemned being prepared.

Like I said from the very first post, my feelings about most of the people here are that you are more kind hearted than I in such a circumstance. But one reality we all have to face, is that you cannot save the world alone and you sometimes have to choose who or what is more important at that point in time.

For those of you that wonder, I love kids, do not kick dogs, and love holding warm loving women.

Bountyhunter