Originally Posted By: JBMat
If you reckon a bare minimal subsistence is living, then yes, the homeless have skills. I would argue this, saying that they basically leech off of what they can find, beg, or steal. Those aren't skills.

Skill is taking some logs, some rope, some knowledge, and making shelter. Skill is starting a fire without matches or a lighter. Skill is knowing where and how to find food - sans a dumpster in back of a fast food place. Skill is knowing how to stay warm, clean, and relatively safe no matter the weather.

Take away society as we know it, then the homeless are more than likely to be SOL than the average Joe.


Well, you kind of took one example I gave and ran with it. Anyway, it doesn't really matter.

We're working with a different definition for "skill." A skill in a survival situation is any ability to do any task that promotes survival. Like war, a survival situation is not always (actually is never) pretty, and some things that are necessary are not comfortable to discuss. Now, if you want to be known for high morals, then the conversation is more focused to a certain set of skills.
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