Nushif
Member
I've been dipping around in this section for a bit and no doubt have found some pretty good information to have, but I am starting to wonder at something.
Some of the advice on here, while sound seems a bit ... limiting in terms of quality of life. Let me elaborate:
One piece of advice is to not use the remote door opener feature on cars, because an organize team of criminals could attack you as you open the car in a parking lot in front of a grocery store.
I hate to say it ... but I love that feature. It gives me a small bit of "quality of life" when I can conveniently open something. But at the core of the argument here I'm wondering about one's quality of life when one walks through an every day situation contemplating how exactly one is vulnerable at every corner. And ideally we should all be at "yellow" at *all times.*
I just can't get myself to do it. Obviously this is just one example. If I see a set of clue as to something being seriously fishy and out of place, sure I'll up my alertness a bit. But I'm still more likely to be on the curious rather than tactical side of the spectrum.
If every day I walk from WinCo to my car feels like stepping outside the wire in Afghanistan ... where's my quality of life? If instead of going to white at home, behind a locked door I am constantly scanning windows and outside cameras for suspicious movement, at which point am I no longer in a sanctuary where I can recover from my strenuous days at work or at school?
Imagine someone who comes home from work and then follows all the recommended safety advice on all their property, and then follows all the safety advice, which inherently is a pretty good collection of ideas, what kind of life are they so desperately defending? An existence in which they can't relax even in their own home and they are wary of anyone whose path they cross? Where every person is to be evaluated based on lethality?
Am I just reading too much into this or does this at all have merit?
If we're all cowering in our houses because of a small minority like the criminal element in our society, haven't they already won?
Similar to the treatment the TSA subjects passengers to .. if we're going through all this just to be "safe" ... haven't they won?
I'm not saying we shouldn't be prepared, but I'm wondering at which point the pursuit of preparedness becomes so large that there's not much of a life left to defend.
Some of the advice on here, while sound seems a bit ... limiting in terms of quality of life. Let me elaborate:
One piece of advice is to not use the remote door opener feature on cars, because an organize team of criminals could attack you as you open the car in a parking lot in front of a grocery store.
I hate to say it ... but I love that feature. It gives me a small bit of "quality of life" when I can conveniently open something. But at the core of the argument here I'm wondering about one's quality of life when one walks through an every day situation contemplating how exactly one is vulnerable at every corner. And ideally we should all be at "yellow" at *all times.*
I just can't get myself to do it. Obviously this is just one example. If I see a set of clue as to something being seriously fishy and out of place, sure I'll up my alertness a bit. But I'm still more likely to be on the curious rather than tactical side of the spectrum.
If every day I walk from WinCo to my car feels like stepping outside the wire in Afghanistan ... where's my quality of life? If instead of going to white at home, behind a locked door I am constantly scanning windows and outside cameras for suspicious movement, at which point am I no longer in a sanctuary where I can recover from my strenuous days at work or at school?
Imagine someone who comes home from work and then follows all the recommended safety advice on all their property, and then follows all the safety advice, which inherently is a pretty good collection of ideas, what kind of life are they so desperately defending? An existence in which they can't relax even in their own home and they are wary of anyone whose path they cross? Where every person is to be evaluated based on lethality?
Am I just reading too much into this or does this at all have merit?
If we're all cowering in our houses because of a small minority like the criminal element in our society, haven't they already won?
Similar to the treatment the TSA subjects passengers to .. if we're going through all this just to be "safe" ... haven't they won?
I'm not saying we shouldn't be prepared, but I'm wondering at which point the pursuit of preparedness becomes so large that there's not much of a life left to defend.