Y2K is like Pascal's Wager. If you prepare and nothing happens, you still have your life to live. If you don't prepare adequately and major disruptions do occur, you suffer the risk of losing your life
No disagreement there. But quite obviously you failed to read my post fully.
But I have found that it is just easier to motivate people into thinking and doing something about preparing if I compare Y2K to some other form of natural disaster that could strike at any time rather than the potential end of civilization.
Clearly I'm not advocating doing no preparation. And I'm about as much a "polly-anna" as you are an extremist anti-govt survialist/anarchist. Watch the insults, Rarebird. They're my opinions and I'm entitled to them without derogatory comments from you or anyone else.
There is a CLEAR DIFFERENCE between taking reasonable precautions and being mentally and physically prepared for unknown contingencies, and focusing your preparations for what you have already declared inevitable because of fear-based analysis. Fear inevitably creates the worst case, and irrational, scenario in our minds. It takes rational thought to say... "hey even if there are disruptions, they will only be temporary, because there exists one hell of an incentive to fix the problem".
You don't know what will happen and neither do I. So I prepare a contingency plan based upon my circumstances and needs. You do the same. But clearly our needs are not the same, nor are our circumstances.
And all of us should encourage everyone we know, or discuss this with, to take do the same, take preparations that they feel comfortable with. Because, if they aren't comfortable, they just won't do it.
If you call them a fool for not doing as much as you're doing, then they'll call you a wacko and become that much more steadfast in their denial and the battle is lost and you've wasted your time and effort and done more damage than good.
And just as you claim to find my views dangerous, I find the views of those who advocate taking all their money out of the bank, selling all of their stocks, buying gold and silver, selling the house and moving to a farm...etc, etc, as just a bit dangerous as well. Too many people taking such drastic steps all at once is obviously far more damaging than the friggin' computer problem itself.
But I guess that's where we disagree, rarebird. So don't provoke me by calling my ideas "dangerous or polly-annaish" and I won't provoke you by calling you an extremist economic subversive.... <VBG>
Alright??
Regards,
Ron |
