When Is It Morally Right To Kill A Zombie?

Super-D said:
I understand what you're saying, but that doesn't change the question. What I want to know is how being resuscitated from a state of death is not being "alive" again. I'm fine with the idea of "undead" in the movies, but if you want to project it onto a real-world hypothetical situation, I think zombies would be considered very much alive. Not that it would change anything about the moral implications of killing them, since they're just single-minded killing machines. I'm just arguing semantics here.
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Depending on the level of zombification, they may fit some of the qualifications of life (ability to grow, change, metabolize, etc). Heck, some kinds of zombies may even reach a level of sentience depending on their level of awareness.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Step back a minute, there's two types of zombies, there's the traditional ones that rise from the grave zombies, and then there's humans infected with pathogen zombies.
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Grammar aside, both are considered dead. Infected by pathogen, still an animated corpse.
 
LeninGHOLA said:
Grammar aside, both are considered dead. Infected by pathogen, still an animated corpse.
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My gramma is not a zombie damnit! There's a reason we put her in a casket that locks, no getting out of there, ever!

As to the second point, I don't think so. The pathogen infected ones are not dead people, it's a dog with rabies really, some chemical or biological reason as to why someone snaps and goes on a killing spree.

Also who's to say zombie is a communicable disease?
 
Depends on which universe you're talking about. Walking Dead pathogen zombies are dead. 28 Days zombies are not, but are also therefore not zombies. Rabies doesn't preclude the need for a working cardio-vascular system.

Also, why is it that zombies can eat a dozen people and never have to shit?
 
When? As soon as that MFer is trying to bite me and/or cause harm. Then I'd feel justified putting them out of their misery. If it's a choice between me or it, guess which one I'm gonna pick?

Kinda like the guy in the mini van with his family that was chased by bikers and beaten. If that was me being chased by a large gang of bikers beating my car, I'm gonna be swerving like a mofo until I take out enough of them to stop chasing me...
 
Abercrombie zombie? Any time.

Undead zombie? Let's consider their humanity and danger first.
 
Carl hesitated to kill his first time and guess what... Somebodied later DIED because of that zombie! It is your DUTY to kill every zombie you see.
 
Pffft to that. What if I want to keep my daughter, who as a zombie American has certain unalienable rights, and just act like everything is cool. Nobody has to know, expect the few people who she eats.
 
Everyone thinks they'll be a survivor, but odds are that most people here would be zombies instead of survivors. I don't think mythical creatures like myself can be zombified, and I have the advantage of flight, so I'll be safely watching your apocalypse from some high mountain aerie. Good luck, and try not to join the horde.
 
The Science based zombie is not possible for very long. Dead means you're dead and your body stops working. Some parts of your body survive for hours or days, but not the brain. Regardless the zombie hordes would just be all rotting flesh in days. The only science zombies that could exist would be the 28 days later insane or mutant type zombie.

Dead zombies could only be magical, but those zombies aren't infectious.
 
If you can avoid it, PLEASE DON'T KILL THE ZOMBIES. They are important to the entertainment industry. Not just as extras to be returned to kit form with deer slugs, but in the creative areas.

Do you really believe that Honey Boo-Boo, the Kardashians, Southbeach Tow, and Hardcore Pawn were written my humans??? How gullible are you? Obviously the were written by zombies who's brains are not fully functional.
 
bastage said:
Then we can feed these democrats to the zombies...
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Arguably the (literally) political mindlessness dragged into every thread by a few posters suggests we're already in the midst of a big Z infestation. :D
 
Phoenix333 said:
Everyone thinks they'll be a survivor, but odds are that most people here would be zombies instead of survivors. I don't think mythical creatures like myself can be zombified, and I have the advantage of flight, so I'll be safely watching your apocalypse from some high mountain aerie. Good luck, and try not to join the horde.
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Yes but their can only be one of you present in the same time period, think of how many others out their have the same name as you. While we are down here fighting zombies, you will have your own battle for survival. Good luck with that and may the best Phoenix win.
 
What if the zombies illustrated by movies/stories were not the "real" zombies? What if "real" zombies were actually living people that were controlled by the virus?
 
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