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Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I've been sitting here debating whether or not I even want to get involved in the post. I guess I'll find out when and if I see it in the thread.

#1. Would I kill to protect my family?
Yes. In less than a heartbeat.

#2. Would I steal food, water, medicine and other supplies from a store or abandoned "something" for my family?
Yes. I would also steal them for my "Tribe." (I read a great article this morning about strangers in the Quarter banding together to form "Tribes" to survive, with shared tasks and all sorts of great things that make you have faith in people again.) If my home was left standing, I'd take in people. Even if I had no home, forming a "Tribe" is a very sensible way to deal with a crisis.

#3. (The difficult one.) Would I steal food *from* other people for my family?
Sitting here in my air conditioned living room, tapping on my computer, I want to say "no." I really want to. However, there happens to be a photograph of my oldest daughter framed and sitting on my computer. Whose life do I pick...a stranger's...or hers? I pick hers.

#4. Would I contribute to a "general fund"?
No. San Diego County already got the shaft over that one a couple of years ago during the fires. Lives were lost, homes, neighborhoods and one entire small town burned to the ground. People were encouraged to donate to the Red Cross and donate they did...only to find out later that their donations went into the "general fund" because they weren't specified on the check as being for the Fire Victims. So the money intended to go to their neighbors went into *all* work the Red Cross did...even if it was on the other side of the world. The head of the Red Cross lost her job and there was some sort of scandal. I'll never give to a "general fund" again, nor am I as eager to donate to "charities" as I once was - not without knowing exactly how much of the money actually goes to where it was intended to go and how much is eaten by "administrative costs." (I dontated to Chris and Red's fund for WT and Osiris. I know *exactly* where *all* the money is going.)

#5. How much would I personally "de-evolve" in a situation like the one in NO?
I'm usually pretty good in a crisis but I have no idea what I'd become in that *big* a crisis. I know what the historical precedents are, though. I know to what other perfectly nice, perfectly sane people have been reduced in horrific conditions. I don't think I'm any better than they are. To sit here in my comfortable living room and say that I am would be highly presumptive.

Hurricane or not..

What if you'd do 3 out of 5 just for the hell of it ?

Or cause you can?

;-)))