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Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact by cstross on Saturday November 08, 2014 @01:06PM (#8577631)
Or you might be doing it for religious reasons:

https://www.lds.org/topics/food-storage?lang=eng

(Devout Mormons are supposed to maintain a stockpile of food. I suspect Costco get much of their custom for this preparedness pack from members of the LDS ...)

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Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact by judk on Sunday November 09, 2014 @11:13AM (#8580132)
Religious reasons are just insanity reasons proxies through family and friends.
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Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact by philwelch on Sunday November 09, 2014 @05:48PM (#8581183)
Most successful religions have a small dose of insanity and identity carrying a payload of genuinely good moral and practical advice. Stockpiling food is a rational, practical thing to do. The "insanity" in LDS has more to do with things like transdimensional space gods or dodgy, ahistoric ideas about where the American Indians came from.
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