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Live as a survivalist or die?

Would you want to survive the collapse of society

  • Yes, survive at all cost

    Votes: 34 82.9%
  • No, better off dead.

    Votes: 7 17.1%

  • Total voters
    41

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I am reading a book by James Wesley Rawles, Patriot. It is about the collapse of society and a group of survivalist fighting off roving gangs of looters. The picture he paints is very dark with prisons emptied out and no rule of law. The survivalist stay locked in a steel shuttered house filled with food and water and watch the world around them collapse in riots, rape robbery and murder. I just started the book and it may have a happy ending but it makes me wonder if things got that bad would I even want to survive. So I ask the question of you guys, survive or die, which is preferable?

By the way James has an interesting survival blog. SurvivalBlog.com
 
I am reading a book by James Wesley Rawles, Patriot. It is about the collapse of society a group of survivalist fighting off roving gangs of looters. The picture he paints is very dark with prisons emptied out and no rule of law. The survivalist stay locked in a steel shuttered house filled with food and water and watch the world around them collapse in riots, rape robbery and murder. I just started the book and it may have a happy ending but it makes me wonder if things got that bad would I even want to survive. So I ask the question of you guys, survive or die, which is preferable?

By the way James has an interesting survival blog. SurvivalBlog.com

Survive. There is nothing preferable about dying unless one is in intractable uncontrollable pain.
 
if it's as bad as he say....

...tiiiiii-ii-ii-iii-ime, is on my side, yes it is...
 
If anarchy becomes the norm, first thing we should do is kill all the violent felons right in the prisons....
 
I think much of the desire to live or die results from actually experiencing the collapse of most everything you know and loved, and watching brutality all around without rhyme or reason, and living in perpetual fear, etc. In such a case, I know enough not to guess what I'd do. Sure, today in cozy law abiding land, I'd say of course I'd live. Either way, I don't want to have to find out.
 
I'd wanna survive. I hope I get to see this day. Yay anarchy and lawlessness.
 
I'd wanna survive. I hope I get to see this day. Yay anarchy and lawlessness.
Serious ?
I've seen too many movies of this genre...and our own history (dark ages)....
90% chance that we would all be dead...and for what ???
Still, I'd try to do all possible to survive, including killing.
 
I am reading a book by James Wesley Rawles, Patriot. It is about the collapse of society and a group of survivalist fighting off roving gangs of looters. The picture he paints is very dark with prisons emptied out and no rule of law. The survivalist stay locked in a steel shuttered house filled with food and water and watch the world around them collapse in riots, rape robbery and murder. I just started the book and it may have a happy ending but it makes me wonder if things got that bad would I even want to survive. So I ask the question of you guys, survive or die, which is preferable?

By the way James has an interesting survival blog. SurvivalBlog.com

I thought Idaho was already survivalist central.
 
Serious ?
Very. Chaos is exciting.

I've seen too many movies of this genre...and our own history (dark ages)....
90% chance that we would all be dead...and for what ???
Still, I'd try to do all possible to survive, including killing.

For what? It'd provide me with a new form of entertainment. It'd be a fun social experiment I'd like to witness with my own eyes.
 
Not at all costs, no, but certainly in the face of anarchy.
 
dead..........
 
I am reading a book by James Wesley Rawles, Patriot. It is about the collapse of society and a group of survivalist fighting off roving gangs of looters. The picture he paints is very dark with prisons emptied out and no rule of law. The survivalist stay locked in a steel shuttered house filled with food and water and watch the world around them collapse in riots, rape robbery and murder. I just started the book and it may have a happy ending but it makes me wonder if things got that bad would I even want to survive. So I ask the question of you guys, survive or die, which is preferable?

By the way James has an interesting survival blog. SurvivalBlog.com

Why is James Wesley Rawles a "Patriot"?
 
To give up and die is easy, and has no honor.

The fight to survive takes strength and conviction.

I choose survive for family.
 
To give up and die is easy, and has no honor.

The fight to survive takes strength and conviction.

I choose survive for family.

when you are locked in a room ?
 
Why is James Wesley Rawles a "Patriot"?

"Patriot" is the name of the book. I've got a copy at home myself, and it's been an interesting read so far. There are at least two more books in the series.

Personally, I'd survive. Then again, that sort of society wouldn't bother me as much as it probably would many of you; since it's a lot closer to my utopia than what we live in today.
 
the thread didnt claim the ones who choose " death " have no honor

I am well aware of that.

I rendered my opinion.
 
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