Survival vs. Defense: Emergency Supplies
by Terrance Franklin
Across the a lot of preppers who you notice in real life, in movies as well as on TV shows like Doomsday Preppers, you observe various areas of focus.
Survival economics and the Realistic Man
In the field of economics, there is a concept that was created to make human psychology go away in the lengthy conversation about different aspects in a market. To streamline things, there was one particular presumption: people might try to get the most results given their choices. The set up that symbolized this list of ideals was homo economicus, or the economic man.
Although humanitarians may try and debate the fact that people react altruistically or in accordance with a state of morals, this prediction is the ground for economics, game theory and numerous other fields. If there was any sort of reality to people acting from their own self-interest a post-apocalyptic earth with very few resources might rapidly weed people out. In regards to resources, people will react in a way to increase their own benefits.
Think of any movie that involves a heated deal. The two groups arrive, each having a gang of thugs possessing the machine guns, and while things may get heated, almost everything seems fine. This is business economics at work. Let us call the price of whatever is being transacted X. I recently viewed a film in which The Departed, X was the missile guidance chips to the mafia, and the missile guidance for the Irish mafia. Let's call the alternative to the deal Y. In such cases, each side are in possession of automated weapons and at close range. Y would mean extreme problems for both parties.
The transaction can go off since both sides are acting in their own personal self interest. The cost of Y (loss of life and harm) is greater than the price of X (goods being traded). In order to pick the lowest price, the two groups go with X. If the power was uneven the dynamic would probably be transformed. Say the mafia was equipped with knives. The price of Y would be minimal to the Chinese, and they would choose killing them in cold blood to accept the chips while keeping their money. This is plain self interest, it's the basic deal gone terribly awry.
What does this mean for you?
In order to avoid difficulty, you should be sure that Y is usually more than X. To do this, your amount of security must increase as the worth of your goods rises. If you aren't well prepared for this you are playing custodian to somebody else's cache until they decide to run you over. Somebody such as Kathy Harrison would be in a terrible position, with a high X (her source of honey and food) and a very low possibility of Y (no guns). Being at the mercy of someone's altruism after this difficult situation is a bad scenario. In the case that your X and Y do not come close, it is better to err on the side of being more intensely armed.
Thanks for reading! Terrance Franklin writes about survival and nutrition on a variety of sites on the web. For more information on emergency supplies, be sure to check out <a href="http://emergencysupplieshq.wordpress.com/">emergency supplies</a>. And for even deeper reading, follow the link at <a href="http://emergencysupplyhq.hubpages.com/hub/emergencysupplies1">emergency supplies</a>
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Title: Survival vs. Defense: Emergency Supplies
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