The Reluctant Outlaw

[Tibbs735]

The mentality of "OH, I'll go to the woods and hunt and forage for stuff" during a WROL event, especially without practice and extensive background knowledge, is just one step up from "Oh, I'll just go to the store and get what I need there."

I'm sure we all regularly have the standard conversation with others, even non-preppers, about how terrible everything is, economy, recession, end of the world, overpopulation, mutant zombie bikers etc. When I do, I try to end on the positive note of "OK, so what are YOU going to do about it? You could take easy steps to massively improve your own situation, like X Y Z, generic advice", no OPSEC broken etc. It's as if cannot what they moan about, and how it might affect them,in their own reality, until it bears down on them and they run screaming to the nearest person in a reflective jacket.