If you cannot swim, and you jump in to save a drowning person and you both drown, your conscience may be clear, but you still did not help. Force as many people as you can to learn to swim by telling them that you CAN NOT or WILL NOT save them, and you will live, and they will live, and together you can help more people. This example applies to preparedness because if you are in an emegency with 3 days supplies and you see two hundred people coming to you with no supplies, you cannot help, and you will end up giving them very short term hope and probably hurt yourself because your conscience makes you try instead of accepting the futility of it all, turning away and saving yourself for 3 days.
Bountyhunter, I do understand where you are comming from, I was just trying to post my opinion and didn't mean to attack you directly. Your post just got me to posting in the first place, because my approach is different from yours. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Obviously none of us can feed 200 people, but even if I couldn't swim I could still help the person drowning. Try to get a rope or some sort of a float, if none of that is around just call EMS or whoever has the means to help (if they arrive too late, you still tried!). There is no reason for not taking reasonable action and besides, not helping would even get me into jail in this country. A person in danger will most likely think about prepardness and survival differently afterwards and I think everyone deserves that second chance.
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