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Originally Posted by Lighthouse
TS gave me the "nod" for this post.
This scenario came from the card game "Conflicted." The goal is to explore how far people will go to survive while keeping morality and humanity, while trying to survive
An Expected Visitor
You have your food storage in place, six months worth of food and water. One of your friends comes knocking saying that his home has been ransacked, he and his family of four have nothing but the clothes on their backs and they need a place to stay.
Your friend has very few useful skills and taking them in would cut down your supply timeline in half. At this time there is no way you can replenish your supplies without risking your own life in one way or another. Would you open your home and your supplies to your friend and his family or wouldn't you? Why?
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My first question, and observation as to the first mistake is:
If this individual has no immediate skills towards self-sufficiency, especially in an emergency situation. Then how and/or why does this individual know you have anything he might need or want?
If he never bothered to learn any skills towards the concept of self-sufficiency, more correctly the personal responsibility of self-preservation. These are the same kind've arrogant fools who never bothered to put away any needed items towards the same goal.
Consequently, the first mistake was letting a fool such as this know by any means you have anything of value in an emergency situation. I've seen their kind many times and soon as they know you are prepared thier mindset is the same "don't have to do anything towards that, I'll just go to so & so's house"
And they are damned dangerous as they are the first ones that'll turn on you out of envy, not jealousy, and that the most dangerous of emotions.
I would send them home and tell them there isn't anything I can do for them at the moment, head on home & wait until I contact them and we'll go from there.
I'd backtrack them to see where they go & what they do, home or elsewhere? If they go home, any evidence in thier neighborhood they're telling the truth? Evidence of violence? Anything of the sort? Neighbors in the area showing any evidence of trauma or anything? Are they looking emotionally upset or anything? Did that individual show or have any evidence of any trauma associated with such an event?
Or worse, did they not go home and you observe them 'talking' to someone else? Who did they talk to and where are they?
If no evidence anywhere they were telling the truth or you observe some other kind've behavior, at least you know the individual was lying, now the question of why? And it's a better starting point for knowing what to do next.