Toilet paper, hoarding and profiteering, and ass hygiene thread

[Poopadoop]

Even if it were SHTF, what right would she have to grab more than her share of the world's remaining supply of tp? Is she someone special? No, she's not, fuck her.

[OngBonga]

Even if it were SHTF, what right would she have to grab more than her share of the world's remaining supply of tp? Is she someone special? No, she's not, fuck her.

She already has every right to do it, it's legal. Rights and morality are not the same thing. But let's replace your word "right" with "moral basis" and I respond on that basis.

If SHTF for real, ie society is on the brink of collapse, morality goes out of the window. This bitch would be dumb, because she makes herself a prime target for robbery. But being selfish and stockpiling is not just predictable, it's understandable. She might not want a lifetime's supply of bog roll, she might simply see it as an excellent bargaining product in a future anarchic economy. There are better products to stockpile, salt being one, but bog roll will be a high value product because nobody wants an itchy arse all day long.

And as far as she is concerned, yes she is special. If SHTF for real, I'm special, so are my family and close friends, and fuck everyone else.

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I think TP is a terrible good to build your post apocalyptic power base from, unless you plan to trade up while more optimistic people are under valuing their salt, ammo, guns, horses, etc.

That being said, I'm mostly with Ong wrt a shit hitting the fan scenario. I don't actually think morality goes out the window though. Morality is useful for societies. If shit hits the fan, society doesn't go away, it simply fractures. Now your society is your family, your friend group, the group of survivors you happen to fall in with, etc.

We're a social species, and we'll always try to build a better society, so moral actions will ultimately pay social dividends. It's just that morals are context dependent.