Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist. (I'm not calling you an extremist -- I've never met you.)
That's a different crowd from someone who is just prepared for emergencies and disasters.
> Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist.
It seems like you have a cognitive distortion to work out. Amplifying an anecdotal sample to classify all people with a shared interest as having other characteristics of your sample is understandable but also misguided.
That's a different crowd from someone who is just prepared for emergencies and disasters.