when does a preper become a raider

[Hrusai]

this is an odd question, the answers are both simple and complex, the simple version is preppers will learn, gather and prepare for the event before it happens, they will kill wildlife and if it comes to it people (depending on various factors, but i fervently believe we all have the capacity to kill and in a survival situation this will be tested, sooner or later.

a raider is a difficult concept to define, it can cover many things, both the insanity of societal collapse that twists normal people to abnormal behaviors such as a warped sense of self, loss of morality, delight in infliction of pain, willingness to steal and kill for your own (and your groups) gain, and many other things. a raider can also be a mindset, some sorts of people such as chavs (i know there are good ones but im working on stereotypes here, so no offence intended, i have mates who are chavs) who naturally band together and delight in substance abuse and acts of violence and expression of their "manliness".....personally i'd set a base definition of a raider as someone, or a group of people, who will turn to violence and theft more readily than honesty and trading...often they will become abusers of a variety of substances, rapists and sadists.

but by all means this is not a comprehensive description, in our very nature we are abstract beings and as such are difficult to define, we will know intrinisically what category people belong in, but describing why and how is another matter, just as a police officer knows some people are criminals, but cannot get enough evidence to define them as such according the rules, and also knows a person is honest but was driven to crime but can get enough evidence to satisify the laws description. we can all deduce very instinctively who is fundamentally bad and who is fundamentally good, granted it may not be a snap decision and in light of evidence these decisions can and often are reassessed for the most part we are for the most part correct.

at the end of the day we all have our seperate definitions of things, one mans raider is another mans survivalist doing what it takes to survive, its a matter of perspective, personal morals and governing laws, and experiences, and as such there is no such all encompassing definition, we all must decide for ourselves!