How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse Morally

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So I’ve been playing Fortnite and it’s gotten me thinking about how much better zombies in Call of Duty WWII is. Anyway, while I highly doubt that we’ll ever be faced with a zombie apocalypse, it does bring up some interesting moral dilemmas.
  1. Do we consider zombies to be animals and therefore not having human dignity?
  2. Should we avoid killing zombies when possible?
  3. Are we still required to go to mass after the zombie apocalypse (assuming that the church is overrun by zombies.)?
  4. How should we handle people who are infected and are going to turn into zombies?
  5. Can I take over several counties when the government falls?
I know that these are silly questions but I’m a silly person who is genuinely curious about these situations.
 
The animated corpse has no human soul or rationality so killing it is not wrong.

Personally, once infected and there’s no cure, they’re as good as dead and a threat. I’d put them down.
 
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  1. Kill em’
  2. Keep killing em’
  3. I’ll try. But I’m keeping my guns with me.
  4. Let them go and deal with them later.
  5. Be my guest.
 
  1. Good.
  2. Ok but I’m running low on ammo.
  3. Ok.
  4. I’ll probably put them in chains so they can’t follow.
  5. WOHOOO!
 
To who? It’s not like I was going to create a republic, no time for elections when zombies are running loose.
 
Look here. Ben Franklin said there are only two certainties- death and taxes. The zombies have the death part covered. That leaves you to pay the taxes!😜
 
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Doesn’t implementing Catholic social policies, making Catholicism the official religion, and pretending them from the zombies make me and the Church even?
 
Clever. For that, you can get a free potato. Because that’s all we’ll grow after the outbreak.
 
My answers assume zombies are created by infection that hijacks brain functions and causes a person to lose self-control of their actions. The disease also creates a pheromone that makes a “zombie” not view otThere zombies as food. But due to mutations there is an incredible desire to spread the disease that’s created by this infection, hence why zombies go crazy at humans apart from hunger.

1: They’re still humans with dignity, but they also pose a direct threat to your life. Therefore double effect applies and you may kill the zombies. But if you have a reasonable opportunity to save a zombie from their illness, it would be good to save them.

2: As zombies hunt humans with a vengeance, it is prudent to eliminate all that you come across. This is war.

3: Being in a church during Mass will be perfectly safe during the zombie apocalypse. While false faiths will get overrun, real clerics are known for their casting abilities such as “cure minor wounds” and “turn undead.” But as there is legitimate concern over one’s ability to arrive at said church safely, due diligence for health would excuse the obligation for infected regions.

4: We shall tie them up and find a way to harvest their pheromones. As there will be cooperation prior to zombification, I suggest some good knots and a feeding funnel be attached beforehand.

5: You may not subjugate the people of those counties without their consent. But you may take aggresive pre-emotive measures to ensure they safety against their will. 😉
 
  1. When you mention saving them from the illness, you mean stopping it before they are zombified, right?
  2. If not, then number 1 and 2 contradict each other.
  3. I always knew playing Skyrim would be useful.
  4. The pheromones are for the cure right?
  5. Of course that’s what I meant. laughs suspiciously
 
“free potato “

Throw in some butter and sour cream and you got a deal!!!👍
 
I read about a zombie attack. It was in a book about being a slave laborer in Auschwitz in WW II.* The zombies were actually very sick prisoners who had escaped from quarantine. Just like fictional zombies, they were weak, slow, dangerously infectious, in need of warm shelter, and very hungry. They wanted to enter the author’s barracks, but were barricaded out.

We have seen this type of situation happen in New Orleans after Katrina. Starving survivors who tried to cross a bridge to a neighboring community had shots fired over their heads by that community’s police to prevent them from entering.

I imagine a future event: a nuclear attack on a city. There will be bedraggled (and possibly radioactive) survivors who will try to flee to the surrounding towns in search of food and refuge. I think that they will look and even behave like the zombies that we have seen in movies. The question here is who will practice Christian values by taking them in and who will shoot at them to keep them away?

*SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ, Primo Levi
 
By saving I refer to a cure for the infection. A mad scientist will lrovide this before turning out to be the one that started it all.

And the pheromones are for disguise. That way you can lather up and not get spotted.
 
We were talking about real zombies. Of course I’d help the refugees to the best of my abilities.
 
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We were talking about real zombies. Of course I’d help the refugees to the best of my abilities.
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My point is that the infected, starving prisoners were very much exactly like your “real zombies,” and allowing them entry would mean the end of your own survival. Mr. Levi seemed to me like a very moral person, but he admits to being a part of the decision to barricade out the infectious.

i don’t think that any of us can say for sure what we are going to do when faced with this situation.
 
It depends entirely on the nature of the zombie apocalypse.

Dark magic zombies?
Kill em more dead than they already are. Still go to Church if reasonable, same as always. If it’s dark magic it’s probable they must avoid Holy things anyway, so a good Church may be the best place to be.
 
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