On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:40:51 -0400, Rex Tincher wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:50:32 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:07:55 GMT, Strider wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:14:35 GMT, "Leo Lichtman"
wrote:

Also, I have never had anyone express resentment at the fact that I was
running it and had power when they didn't.

I wonder if they might have acted differently had they and their
families had actually been in fear of their lives.

Strider

Or it was 5 days and the food in the freezer was turning to ooze.

There wouldn't be any resentment in those cases, either, but your
generator would mysteriously disappear.

Not if you secured it properly.
I've thought for years that survivalists might be caught between a rock and a
hard place if bad times ever do come. People do not always(?) behave rationally.
It would't make much sense for them to resent you if you were surviving fairly
comfortably and they weren't, even if you had tried to warn them before. Many
times, when survivalists try to tell people they should prepare, people treat
them like they(the survivalists) are the fools. Of course, they wouldn't want to
be reminded later that they ignored what turned out to be good advice. People in
that situation aren't usually very receptive to any "I told you so's",
especially if they're hungry, cold, worried, etc. It's hard to reason with a
hungry man.

It is easier to fight for our principles than to live up to them.-Alfred Adler