• SpamCamel@lemm.ee
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    • Maintaining a balance of calories in vs out is really hard. In particular fats are extremely difficult to acquire.
    • Getting almost anything done requires hard manual labor, which means you need even more calories.
    • Harsh winters mean food scarcity and burning even more calories just keeping warm.
    • You’re completely fucked if you get sick or injured.
    • Boredom, loneliness and stress could drive you insane.
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      Can you expand on why fats are harder to acquire? The most immediate method I can think of is from hunting and trapping. Is this very difficult to do from a practical point of view?

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        Do you know how to hunt or set traps? Do you know how to butcher an animal without nicking a bowel and tainting the meat? Most folks don’t. I know I don’t. I would die if left out in the woods and having to fend for myself.

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          It’s weird to me people who think they could or want to attempt to survive doing those things every. single. day. by themselves. I’ve done everything you’ve mentioned, as well as foraged for whatever couldn’t kill me or eat me first, bugs included. It’s not fun, it’s fucking brutal work and you spend most of your day hungry unless you find a good, consistent source of calories and clean water. You’re still fucked though if you live anywhere that gets a real winter, break a bone, get an infection, run into an animal that’s just as hungry as you are. Humans aren’t equipped to survive alone for very long.

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          Fair enough. Even if you do end up killing something, you might not have the skills to safely prepare it for consumption.

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        Unless you are a skilled and experienced hunter and trapper, game is quite difficult to acquire. Especially if modern hunting and trapping equipment is not available.