Tell me

well, the problem here is that every food have a limited life-time.. after a while food get wasted. sure, there is food in cans which is basicly good for years.. but even this food will after a while get wasted.. and after a while you would need to travel to get new food. and your life would be really hard because think about it.. no electricity and stuff.. the nature would quickly take over after a few years so traveling with cars etc could be difficult.. you would need to collect much stuff to manage to stay alife. like medicine, informations (how to cure stuff, what to do if something bad happen etc), fresh water, new food, maybe weapons if animals gonna take the city's over etc etc. - think about it.. you're alone. you can't do & know anything. you just would need to cut yourself while a repair or something and then get the wound infected and you would be screwed if you don't have the knowledge how to heal it etc.. and most people out there don't have this knowledge because most..

people depend on the internet as a information source.. or other people like doctors, mechanics, etc. - i have a few survival skills and know how to make fire, stay warm, get food etc.. but even i would say that i would be basicly screwed in such a situation because there is much stuff you can screw up in such a situation if you are not trained to survive in such a situation.

i understand expiration dates, but i've also done survival course, was the only one to come out with a full stomach, others weren't willing to eat. that's the bush, there's farms still, agriculture, at the worst, would have a small farm growing what i need, not that hard, takes about 35 years for nature to fully take over, so plenty of time to explore and settle down somewhere. I have more than enough survival skills to live independently in the wild, i know what plants to eat, where to get food, have eaten bugs, insects, worms (not nice). Have hunted, can defend myself. I'm not worried, only if serious injury would be a concern.

sure, there is stuff you can eat in nature.. the problem is.. most people don't have knowledge about plants in their place or elsewhere. they go to the supermarket or fastfood restaurants and eat. they don't have informations about the plantlife which is growing in nature where they live. it's not a wonder that a person which have rly good survival skills can survive in such a situation.. i mean, that's basicly what survival training is for.. but most people in like city's etc. don't have that knowledge & skill to do that. if you would random choose a stranger from everyone on this planet, the chance is high that you will get one which will don't have that skill & knowledge and die. but the problem is.. even bear gryls can't do a lot if he injure himself and then gets sick.. if he don't have a doctor or medicine, he's screwed.

yeah, but i'd still say yes

Ya'll ever hear of a library? It's full of usefull books with tidbits such as how to grow food, antibiotic properties of plants, how to build windmills (tools are plentiful).
I mean, duuuUUUUUuuuuuuh.

Ofc I can't but I'm pretty sure cats and dogs are mostly able to survive on their own when the instincts kick in. Also I feel better about at least giving them a chance instead of just letting them starve in their homes. No need to downvote me, smh.

I think the animals would rather take their chances, rather than certain starvation , thirst.

I didnt downvote you, but someone downvoted me without me doing anything. Great community..

It's just a rabid asshat I guess

Yeah, down votes without a reason are cowardly stupid. You and Mialinay had valid points. It's just a crazy make believe situation in the first place.

@cycy- I went and upvoted all your posts. I think someone here isn’t prepared for a bad situation. You’re speaking logically. In such a situation for all the “fun” you could have most survival situations have some elements that are uncomfortable or brutal by our standards, and being faced with examples of some of the hard choices and truths of the situation I think many people prefer fantasy to reality. As noble as freeing animals is- and I agree with @popsy that some chance or freedom is better than dying in a prison- there’s also potential health and physical dangers of releasing these animals. Especially if we are talking about research and zoo animals. How would you release a lion safely? Hopefully you have a way to be very far from that area and aren’t planning to need to be in the vicinity as many animals get hungry or establish territories? As you say it is not conducive to long survival.

@guest_ "let free animals" for me sounded rly more like zoo animals.. less like cats and dogs. and if i think about giraffs, lions etc in city's.. i don't think thats a good idea. cat's and dogs.. sure. i think that's okay. i watch currently at netflix this show where the animals start to hunt humans and begin to communicate.. and this got me the goosebumps.. lions and stuff shouldn't run free around where i'm at. not at all. that's a dumb idea.. wayn how cruel it is if they are in cages. i would maybe try to feed them and look after them if it's needed.. but not free them so they can eat / hurt me.

I agree. That’s exactly what I said above. Long term even releasing domestic animals could cause problems though especially if any aren’t sterilized. Especially rodents and the like as they tend to breed prolifically. Either way as they grew feral and possibly hungry or aggressive it could be bad. It’s also an unchecked disease vector.