Does Readiness Pose a Morality Dilemma?

Unfortunately, almost no one you know understands the need for readiness, nor is doing anything about it. Among the rare cases that understand and are doing something, few of them are doing enough. So if you have taken the maximum steps (or close to it) to be ready for multiple scenarios, knowing that extended family, friends, and neighbors have not, is that a conflict of conscience?

Only you can answer that question. However, unless you have very deep pockets, it is completely unrealistic to believe that you can help all or most people that you know to embrace readiness. Even if you can foot the bill, a big part of readiness is accepting the reality of very unpleasant and scary threats, to gain mental readiness and preparedness. Despite being given all the tools, someone who has not thought out and embraced what readiness is, what to do in a given scenario, or what the consequences are of acting or not acting in rapidly changing circumstances, will fail and not protect themselves and their loved ones. Readiness is very tactical and strategic, so it’s a three-pronged approach requiring resources, tactical planning, and strategic thinking. Only resources can be pushed onto others, not the strategic and tactical approaches and mentality to utilize them properly.

Knowing that your family is the lone prepared group within your social circles can be stressful. There’s the humanistic desire to help others, especially when understanding what not helping may mean for them, given multiple scenarios, they might have to reckon with.

Offering some temporary food or water or shelter to help a neighbor after a severe weather incident destroys their home is not too hard. For any substantial or prolonged event, when no governmental or agency resources arrive, arrive too late, or do little or nothing (see Palestine OH or Lahaina HI) are you capable of caring for throngs of desperate people(acquaintances and strangers) coming to you, some of whom will not think twice of taking what you have readied for your family, potentially by violent means?

Only you can answer these tough questions.

Be aware though, there is no way to help everyone. Helping your family in the growing state of chaos around us all is difficult enough. Who you choose to help, how, and to what degree is a topic of readiness planning that State of Readiness can advise you on. We’ll help you to address these ethical questions, as well as the consequences of what you choose to do or not do, specifically for your family’s safety and survival.