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It's insurance, do you live a life without insurance? Which would bother you more, meeting a man who lived entirely without insurance or one who bought insurance for what he could afford? Does it bother you that the government has bomb shelters (escape pods for nuclear holocaust) while the citizenry don't? I'd prefer someone with a modicum of common sense over an optimistic fool.

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On ships, it's a crime for members of the crew to abandon their posts in an emergency if there are passengers at risk. Similarly, when you are working for the government in some capacity I think you ought to be fully committed to it. If you prefer to put your own interests first, then stay in the private sector.

And yeah, I do think it's a bit of a problem that the United States doesn't have any real civil defense infrastructure in place although realistically geography largely insulates the United States from conventional military attack and so there's much less practical need for such options compared to countries in other regions.

>I do think it's a bit of a problem that the United States doesn't have any real civil defense infrastructure in place

I might be misunderstanding you, but The National Guard doesn't count?

I'll stick with the captain who sinks with his ship over the one with a private life raft.

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