{"id":9496,"date":"2015-06-28T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2015-06-28T06:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T11:56:46","slug":"how-to-properly-debate-a-non-prepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9496","title":{"rendered":"How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/how-to-properly-debate-a-non-prepper_12062015\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Let me start by saying that I almost never do this. I hate giving people a hard time for their opinions, even if they\u2019re wildly divergent from my own. But sometimes, people say things that are so baseless and ignorant, they demand a response.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case with a piece published yesterday at piquenewsmagazine.com, by Leslie Anthony. His article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/whistler\/be-prepared-for-preppers\/Content?oid=2657786\" target=\"_blank\">Be prepared for Preppers<\/a>\u201d may be one of the most outrageous attempts to smear the prepper community, that I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Normally this wouldn\u2019t warrant a response from any of us. We\u2019re all thick skinned people who\u2019ve faced our fair share criticism for our lifestyle, but in the course of painting us all as dumb, paranoid losers, he actually managed to present\u00a0<em>himself<\/em>\u00a0as a prime example of why we prep for disasters. Dissecting his article also presents an opportunity to dispel a few myths about preppers, so let\u2019s dive right in.<\/p>\n<p>After starting his article with the Oxford definition of a prepper, which is \u201ca person who believes a catastrophic disaster or emergency is likely to occur in the future and makes active preparations for it, typically by stockpiling food, ammunition, and other supplies.\u201d He immediately associates this definition with being a part of a lunatic fringe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Thus, \u201cprepper\u201d doesn\u2019t apply to those who carry an extra house key, a first-aid kit and roadside flares to accompany their spare tire, or who might be hoarding enough popcorn and juice boxes to get through a blackout. Instead, the term more rightly fingers conspiracy theorists and anti-government nut-jobs who are strangely looking forward to a biblical End of Days to descend they can break out their toys and supplies to fight the resulting looting-spree \/ civil-war \/ zombie-apocalypse.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper Let me start by saying that I almost never do this. I hate giving people a hard time for their opinions, even if they\u2019re wildly divergent from my own. But sometimes, people say things that are so baseless and ignorant, they demand a response. Such is the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6788,2924,1180,1149,4633,650,6787,768],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-debate","tag-emergency","tag-myths","tag-preparation","tag-prepper","tag-prepping","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}