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Comment by AceyMan

3 years ago

> privacy lunatics, preppers, gun nuts and other extremists [...]

Being a prepper isn't extremist. (Yes, it's expensive, done right, but not necessarily extremist.)

[disclaimer: I live in Los Angeles]

Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist. (I'm not calling you an extremist -- I've never met you.)

That's a different crowd from someone who is just prepared for emergencies and disasters.

  • > Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist.

    It seems like you have a cognitive distortion to work out. Amplifying an anecdotal sample to classify all people with a shared interest as having other characteristics of your sample is understandable but also misguided.