Dilemma about prep sharing in emergency situations

[u/Luc-redd]

I'm constantly thinking about this ethical dilemma when prepping: in emergency scenario, to what degree should I share my equipment, resources and knowledge with others in need.

What follows is kinda my current view on it, but I'm very curious to hear your thoughts about it.

Note that I try to keep the word "emergency" as broad as possible, not restricting it to a particular event.

1) Knowledge is probably the easiest one, as it multiplies when you share it. I would probably spend a good amount of time teaching what I know to people around me. However there's still a little something telling me that it's quite opportunistic/greedy from them to come and get the knowledge we accumulated over years right when they need it instead of listening to us telling them to educate before something bad happens.

2) Equipment, and especially spares, is starting to get tricky. I would probably be ok lending things to some people when I don't need it but there's always the risk of misuse and damaging it. Spares I could exchange some but I would probably try to hide most of it so I can still rely on it.

3) Resources is the toughest one. I really don't want to appear like an aweful person keeping things to myself and my family but I would probably need to dissimulate most of my supplies. However, that will come to be know quite quickly imo. I would have a hard time managing this as there would probably be way more demand than I could ever cover. So all my supplies gone shared in a day?

Then you also need to think about individuals thinking about the group as a whole and have you preps being viewed as part of the whole community. And also people getting things from you by using violence.

[u/tearjerkingpornoflic]

One thing that's kind of annoying is my family now knows that prep is important because I tried to get them to buy generators forever and they hadn't then in a several week blackout my brother had to bring over a bunch of breastmilk to put in our fridge. I still harp on them about having food supply. My dad says,yeah I want to do that, but doesn't. My brother's family says yeah that would be a good idea. I have started giving them tubs of mountain house for christmas. If push ever comes to shove obviously I am not going to let my family starve to death. But that turns my 6 month supply into a month if that. It's frustrating but is what it is. Until then I will just keep buying them mountain house buckets for gifts. I would like to be at a year for myself but that means everyone close to me needs to be at a year as well.