keystone: Let’s say someone showed up next to your bunker and built a small house. Not a raider or a thug—just someone decent and harmless.

    Let’s also assume they’re not a young, attractive woman or anyone appealing like that. But their house is right next to your bunker. You have weapons, and they don’t.

    In that situation, what would you do? What’s the right answer?

    Keystone posted for the first time in a while.

    He explained that he hadn’t posted because of his neighbors.

    For some reason, people kept settling near him, and this time was no different. New neighbors moved in, and he had to tread carefully around them.

    In the end, he barely endured by keeping the heat to a minimum until they froze to death.

    At one point, he risked his life to leave his bunker and run his generator, even starting a wildfire in the process.

    Classic oldbie behavior.

    Keystone’s post was a nostalgic nod to those times.

    But the dilemma he posed was an old one, with a clear answer:

    Kill them.

    Staying out of sight—low visibility—is our most sacred principle.

    Having someone nearby threatens that principle and risks attracting raiders or other dangers.

    Even if they’re unarmed now, that doesn’t mean they’ll always be. They might have armed acquaintances visiting someday.

    Interactions with neighbors during an apocalypse almost always end in disaster.

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