The ethics of being a "Prepper" or "Stockpiling" supplies

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@nearwildheaven

ISTR that a Doper purchased an acreage a few years ago, and while doing some excavations to remodel outbuildings in one way or another, found assorted caches of 5-gallon buckets which contained a variety of edible and non-food supplies, dated from the late 1990s

Echos of Y2K in a hole in my barn

Some of you may recall the first part of this tale, told a few times here in passing over the years. But now the tale has a 2nd, more bizarre part. Back about 1998 or so, the Mrs. and I rented out the old farmhouse (built circa 1850) on our property to a couple in their late 40’s. Let’s call them Mr. and Mrs. Frerint. They were religiously very conservative, suspicious of government, and active in the anti-abortion movement to the extreme. Yet they brought many good qualities as renters. Th…