CHAPTER 12 - PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
While of course we need to “love our neighbors” as the Bible says, that does not mean sacrificing your first priorities of making sure you are doing everything possible in order for you and your family to survive before using those resources for others who refused to prepare for the possibility of a major disaster.
The Bible does say “love thy neighbor” but the next phrase is most important in this situation for we are commanded to love our neighbors “as we love ourselves”.
Loving ourselves must first include surviving or we therefore eliminate the possibility of loving our neighbors which requires life in order to do so. Self-preservation is not selfish or a luxury in times of disaster if one wants to survive.
The very core of survival depends on the basics of life – food and water. No matter what disaster or dangers are being faced, they cannot be lived through unless those affected have food to eat and water to drink at the very least in order to have the life forces necessary to showcase the strength and power of the will to survive that we are each blessed with at birth.