Are People Who Stock Up On Stuff

[nailit]

Selfish?
Or are they merely humans trying to survive?

[237SJ]

Depends if they are depriving others by stocking up. If they are then they are selfish.

[nailit]

The toilet roll shortage been a recent example,
I would want my kids to wipe their ass on something.
Anyone else would have to provide an alternative.
They are are not my responsability.

[nailit]

//Depends if they are depriving others by stocking up. If they are then they are selfish//
How is providing for your family selfish?
Dont you do the same?

[237SJ]

You didn't say "providing for your family" You said "stocking up" There's a difference.

[nailit]

I dont stock up,
But if I felt the need too, then I woudnt hesitate, in order to protect my family.
You would be a liar if you said you wouldnt.

[237SJ]

I remember being in a small Tesco last year during the first lockdown and they were running out of loo rolls. There were a couple and the woman said to her husband "We've got lots of toilet rolls but shall we just buy them anyway"? Others came in and there were no loo rolls left. In my book, that's selfish but in my decades of dealing with the public I know that people are selfish.

[ummmm]

Depends what they stocking up on.

Regardless of the pandemic I've always stocked up on food.

[nailit]

//You didn't say "providing for your family"//
Quite right. I didnt, and should have !

[pastafreak]

If they are taking more than they are actually likely to need during an estimated period, then they are quite possibly selfish.
Last year there were cases of people purchasing so much food that they ended up throwing it away.
Stocking up is not the same as trying to survive. This is not the apocalypse...yet

[LeonBlank1995]

Stock up and stop the communists. Just want to say hello ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Wardy is back. x

[Atheist]

Nailit; grow up. Why do you ask such silly questions here? Form a judgment of your own.

[douglas9401]

I recall a story about Crystal Gayle and family having to substitute for toilet tissue with carbon paper being the inspiration for one of her best known songs.

Well, it was the '70s.

[ummmm]

Leon - where have you been?

[nailit]

//Depends what they stocking up on.//
Neccesities like food, and toiletries.....

Thought that was self evident.

[LeonBlank1995]

Fighting wars. 13 years of banishment and you are the only one here I recognise. I assume you are keeping well?

[Mamyalynne]

Big difference between stocking up and stockpiling, keeping stocks in is essential if there are children involved for example.

[ummmm]

Yes....but you see people with a trolley full of toilet paper. That's selfish.

I buy slightly more than I need all year round especially if things are on offer.

[nailit]

//Nailit; grow up.//
So lets start from an ad Hominin?
// Why do you ask such silly questions here//
And progress to another ad Homonim.
//Form a judgment of your own//
Which wasnt of my own?

[david small]

People are inherently selfish by nature. Ergo they will take the opportunity to overstock if available. So to answer your question, yes, selfish. The polite, the considerate, and the compassionate are the first casualties.
Ever been to a jumble sale?

[Redhelen72]

I have stocked up on food that I can eat and trying to stock up on the special food Brice eats