Maybe learning to help each other will also show them how to have some fucking empathy

This article highlights the more organized resource drives, and that’s super cool to see. But one comment I have about the title–people don’t need to learn to help one another during a disaster. IMO, it’s the default response.

I’m from upstate South Carolina and I know some people in Asheville. Immediately after Helene, everyone was helping everyone. People were sharing gas, generators, food. Anyone with a chainsaw was helping to clear roads.

This is my big criticism with the prepper types. They are way too focused on getting all the resources they would ever need to survive a prolonged disaster when they should be focused on building a community to help one another. This is especially apparent with their desire to own guns and stock ammo. In their mind, a disaster means people will try to steal their resources so they need to defend that. In reality, their neighbors will be coming over asking for or offering help.