Is there a pithy phrase for the practicality of planning for unlikely but catastrophic things? Like locking your door even though you know most people won’t try to steal your stuff, or having guns even though you don’t think the government is about to try to fema camp you?
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“They could if they wanted to” and “they couldn’t even if they wanted to” are positions that are very different to inhabit over the long term
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“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it” is kinda what I’m going for
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Replying to @drethelin
hope for the best, prepare for the worst?
12:17 PM - 18 Feb 2018
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