its not so much non preppers, its the "hobby" preppers that we seem to have in the UK, the ones that (say they)prep for very minor events, although even this I am suspicious of,stuff like minor power cuts- a few hours or maybe a day or two maximum, transport problems and holdups getting to work, or the odd trade union strike, but that's it, that's where they stop and they cant see any reason why anyone prepares for anything more, so when I try to talk to them on forums about long term events, societal collapse or gawd forbid TEOTWAWI, that's when I get all the abuse, I've got them now on my British Forum, they just cannot see where I am coming from because they don't want to, is the worst so terrible to contemplate? or is it better to be paranoid like me and prepare for it?