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APOCALYPSE KARMA
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There are so many rules for the apocalypse!  One you always hear is something along the lines of “be careful how you act during the collapse, it will come back on you”.  What I call Apocalypse Karma.  What is meant, usually, by that is if you indiscriminately snipe pedestrians 800 yards away you can’t say it was self defense and after the rule of law returns you will be judged a murderer.  Technically that is correct, but it ignores a lot of pesky details.  Such as, it is usually only illegal if you are caught.  Another is, WHO is more important than if or why.  And lastly, what do you mean, WHEN we recover?

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This kind of knee jerk prohibition is SOOOOoooo 1955.  As in, after thirty days the inhabitants of the fallout shelters ( did they have “colored only” shelters in the South? Probably not, they didn’t have any shelters at all, being mostly rural.  Another screw job from Yankees ) emerge, scrape off the topsoil to be rid of the radiation ( one assumes it is dumped in the rivers already full of industrial chemicals, kind of like Fuki is today ), run  the Stars And Stripes up the flagpole and go about their business of being The Greatest Generation.  It assumes a quick and easy recovery.  Quick being the operative word.

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But let’s start at the beginning and talk about getting caught.  It is the apocalypse.  Bullets are flying, the air conditioner won’t work and your neighbors are all falling to their knees in weakness and vomiting a lung before noisily dying.  How many neighbors are going to survive to witness you indiscriminately hosing down refugees, for little more reason than you finally got your HK-91 clone and want to test its accuracy?  Which, by the way, should be the expensive one rather than the Century Arms.  If you can’t afford an M14 and still can’t afford a PTR, odds are you can’t even afford a C308, so you might as well just mill your own AR10 and get a battle rifle for $450-$500.

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( I would ONLY recommend a HK clone for the apocalypse battle rifle if you must have a semi.  FN-FAL’s are too expensive, the M-14 is expensive and delicate, and the AR10 by all accounts share none of the good traits of the AR15.  The HK is the only weapon besides the AK that will power through the apocalypse without a gunsmith [ the AR15 is great for the spare parts availability to bypass its less than robust nature ].  The HK91 is no where close to ergonomic, is far less accurate in a relative sense, but it is bombproof.  Do NOT screw up its main attribute by buying a poorly made clone.  Buy the best clone.  I’m 90% sure I’ll be doing a book on this-not because we need one but because it has captured my interest )

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By assuming you’ll be found out, I think it follows that the assumption is also that folks will be sitting in their porch rockers keeping an eye on your activities.  If that sounds as silly to you as it does to me, who is going to rat you out?  The surviving person in the ambushed party?  It is 600 yards away, how could they identify you?  What, a member of your own group?  All you need to do is kill them as things are getting back to normal ( “dang, Carl didn’t come home-he must have run into an enemy patrol”, or how about “dang, I told Carl to stop experimenting with that methane gas” ). 

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Do you even understand why we have Death By Lethal Penile Injection in our justice system, for ANY crime?  It is to keep folks in line, to cow them into obeying the law even when no police are around.  If I wasn’t afraid of the law I’d probably have arranged a fatal car accident for the Baby Momma the day after my younger child moved out of the house.  I’d have preferred that she suffered for countless hours before expiring, but I would have accepted an early death by any means.  She is still alive because I fear retaliation. 

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This Apocalypse Karma shtick is nothing more than someone being brainwashed TODAY to self-police themselves.  To be law abiding and save the government the trouble.  They fear the Hot Lethal Monkey Love Death of AIDS through prison rape so much that they stay squeaky clean for Dig Daddy Gooberment.  I’m not judging.  That is why I stay meek and mild.  But my point is that present circumstances don’t transfer over to the apocalypse in SO many different ways.  The semi’s will run out of ammo, the fighters won’t have artillery support, there won’t be any antibiotics, you won’t have enough food, and, wait for it, there won’t be the luxury of excess energy available which means the powers that be can’t make stuff illegal just to make money.

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Our current prison system is just another money making operation, which is only viable because at the time of its inception there was surplus energy.  In a lower energy system, there are fewer laws and fewer jails.  Peace officers rather than Law Enforcement Officers are the norm.  And as long as you aren’t disturbing the peace, the system doesn’t want to jail you as this is an expense it can ill afford.  True, that means a lot more of the death sentence ( and the return of corporal punishment, just as an aside ), but it also means flimsy charges that can’t be proved are likely to not be bothered with.  If you aren’t caught red handed, and the crime hurts no one presently in power, it isn’t a crime.

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And just as you cannot judge histories actions according to current mores, you can’t judge future actions by today’s morality.  Today, if I’m gunning down border hoppers, I’m a heartless animal ( “think of the children!” ).  Tomorrow?  I could be a national hero for stemming the tide of regional overpopulation, causing a tiny bit of suffering now to avoid a LOT of suffering later ( a few murders now to avoid crime, starvation, disease and death by exposure and war in the immediate future ).  Murder today isn’t necessarily murder tomorrow ( to be clear, don’t kill illegal aliens now ).  Even killing those you could have avoided might be judged acceptable for its greater good, in the future when more pragmatism rules the courts.

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Continued tomorrow.

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