"So you think you can always flick your BIC    , I hope you know so!"


logic path --

you carry a ditch kit, and before, or even if getting hypothermic, you are able to light a fire quickly and warm up --  good

or, you carry a ditch kit, but get too hypothermic to be able to light a fire --  bad, but you are no worse off than if you didn't have the ditch kit in the first place

you don't carry a ditch kit, have no  way to start a fire, and eventually get too hypothermic to care -- bad - you had the time, but not hte means to prevent hypothermia

will you always win ?    who cares, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you can't start a fire, you need to get moving fast and run around or do jumping jacks, whether you feel like it or not, to try and get warm  --  Darwin's Rules.