[mos6507]

Ah, the lifeboat ethics debate again.

I got my sister in a room with both my parents and we had the talk, now that my sister is a doomer. She's not a survivalist--really. She's not going to do the homesteading thing. But she at least has been convinced by me that we're f*cked, and that's progress, I guess.

Anyway, we wrote on the flip chart left and right and tried to come to some common ground on how to pool resources. I told them by going it alone I wouldn't necessarily be able to afford the sort of "family compound" that could accomodate everyone. At the end of the day, though, no real movement. If I want to convince them I'm serious, I have to do more than build a dome greenhouse in the shade of the suburban house. I have to quit my job and relocate to VT or ME or something, total Mosquito Coast. Since I'm not at that level, they're going to slide back into thinking all this doom prep is just a nice thing to do but not a matter of life and death.

What that means is I'm stuck having to do all this more work myself, which means my preps come up a day late and a dollar short.

I just know I'm done debating. Whatever I do going forward is just going to be unilateral. They'll find out about it afterwards and decide how they want to react to it.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A')h, the lifeboat ethics debate again....... If I want to convince them I'm serious, I have to do more than build a dome greenhouse in the shade of the suburban house. I have to quit my job and relocate to VT or ME or something, total Mosquito Coast. Since I'm not at that level, they're going to slide back into thinking all this doom prep is just a nice thing to do but not a matter of life and death.

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