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Posted by rexim on January 1, 2008 at 11:02:23 pm EST
In reply to What's in Your Survival Kit? posted by Alicia on July 2, 2007 at 10:55:02 am EDT

SARs cannot "be taken as a rough proxy for the number of situations where one might find a survival kit useful." I can envision many times where I might find a survival kit useful, but no SAR would be launched if I didn't have it.

Many of the items mentioned in many of the survival kits are useful in any number of situations. Whether those items are necessary is another question.

For example, a plastic trash bag may be used as raingear on a simple summer dayhike. Is it necessary for survival? No. Will a SAR be launched if it is not used? Probably not. Is it useful? Yes.

If someone gets murdered in your immediate neighborhood a couple of times a year, it may be true that "hiking is about as safe as sitting on the back porch." However, I don't think we need to use death as the measure of safety. I can easily sprain my ankle while hike; that is unlikely to occur while sitting on the back porch. Thus, sitting on the back porch is safer.

When you reduce the argument to the ridiculous, you really don't help anybody. You just promote further argument.

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