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Originally Posted by mugwump
Here's a moral quandary for consideration: The grid has just gone down. From the lack of any federal comms and what you can glean from local hams it looks to be nation-wide. Traffic on the state road has dropped to a trickle. A truck full of Useful Stuff drives into town. Driver says it's headed for the hospital in the small city 80 miles to the west. What do you do? If you let it go it's unlikely to make it to its destination. If you commandeer it, people will die. Keep it? Tax it? Escort it? Let it go?
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People down the road in that small city may be depending on that shipment.
What does the driver want to do? If he want's to take the risk to complete the job (his mission) who are we to commandeer someone else's property?
Grid just down...to soon to be predicting when things get back. Tough times make for some tough decisions but based on your scenario it is IMO too soon to go pirate.
I realize others will have different ideas. Tweak the facts and many different discussions and reasonable outcomes are possible.
So, I revise my list of critical skills from...trades, farmers, medical professionals, security, etc., etc., to include leadership. Leaders with good judgement may be in short supply in the short term as well other critical needs.
Great hypothetical and thread to flesh out difficult considerations.