Trusting strangers

[Tibbs735]

In my view, Interactions with strangers should only take place if you are desperately in need of a skill, or the strangers are an established group that has stuff to trade. There is too much to lose and too little to gain from letting in strangers. They could bring in disease, be mentally unstable, a scout for raiders, or split the group like the extreme religious guy in Alex Scarrow's "Afterlight." The fact that they are talking to you implies that they could see you from some way away, though with our population density it may just be you being unlucky. Exercise extreme caution. That said, they could be good people, or another survivalist down on their luck, so don't be a sociopath.