Guess this is an ad hoc poll for where on the spectrum would you be on the zombie apocalypse, but I do expect halo effect to alter the results.
The question is would you be hostile or friendly to other survivors you come across if they had no recourse for their actions
The main assumption is that You have the inherent resistance to the plague so that way you can you can start in a heavily populated area and make your way out or live in there.
I would be curious if people would hide away for the rest of their lives in a cabin in the woods.
I would be friendly to those playing coop and hostile to those who are not.
depends what the zombies look like
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How my fellow USians handled (and are still handling) COVID-19 showed my wife & me that there are only four or five people we can actually trust in a zombie apocalypse. Everyone else would get got for either not taking it seriously enough or not being reliably vigilant.
We are all only three meals away from absolute savagery
Factually not true. You’ll notice that even in Gaza, people shove each other to get at the scraps, but that’s it for open inter-civilian violence, and extended families are still looking out for each other.
That’s mostly their religion keeping the social fabric together. Israel can keep their entire family and they will say God is sufficient for them 5 seconds later. These things don’t happen anywhere else. And even in Palestine there’s opportunists like the Abu Shabab gang.
My zombie apocalypse plan is to fucking kill myself
Had this conversation with a coworker a while ago.
Them: Two bullets.
Me: Redundancy in case you miss vitals or it’s ineffective?
Them: One is for my dog.
As someone who requires specific medications to live. Absolutely same. Rather go out under my own power the widdle and die and probably be a zombie.
I’m too afraid to pry
Zombie apocalypse or not, I’d love to hide away for the rest of my life in a cabin in the woods.
Would you have internet there?
In a zombie apocalypse, perhaps not. I might keep a radio for listening and communicating when necessary. In real life… Maybe, depending on the state of the internet by the time I leave civilization. I might just download a bunch of stuff and keep it in multiple drives, (and/or do the radio thing) radios are cool
The best strategy in an emergency is always mostly cooperation. There will be some awful behavior to look out for, plus with zombies you’ll need a means of keeping them out and screening people for signs of zombification, but it’ll be hard to survive and do that stuff without a community. Many hands, diversity of skills, people to talk to, etc.
I’d be dead.
(It is my firm opinion that I would be one of the first people killed in a zombie apocalypse.)
Me too. I have no illusions about that.
me three and especially so if they’re fast zombies like 28 days later or zombieland
Friendly. Humans are a social species, that’s the way it works; the battle royale thing is mostly good for television. Even the fucked up shit we do is done socially.
What do you mean about the halo effect? I thought that was about physical attractiveness.
Shit, I’m hostile now.
Legit, I’m usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don’t trust any motherfucker at my back until they’ve proven they can be trusted.
That’s how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.
Fortunately, a samurai is probably better equipped to handle the undead than the average person.
As much as I would like to be friendly, I live in America. The reality of the situation is that a lot of the people who will survive the initial hardship are going to be conservative preppers who currently try to deny my right to exist. There’s no way I could be friendly with them, just as I would not expect them to be able to be friendly with me.
I’ll probably just kill myself. It’s either get killed by a zombie and become a zombie or die on my own terms and spare the world from my undead corpse.
Also, a zombie apocalypse isn’t going to “end” when the majority of the population are already zombies (which are functionally immortal given that they’re already dead) so there’s nothing to look forward to afterward. Like exactly zero zombie apocalypse stories have any sort of end game where the minority human survivors win or even how they could conceivably win. What am I living for then? To spend a decade or two starving, afraid, paranoid of everyone living and dead, and surviving just for the sake of surviving? Fuck that, I choose death. Survivors of even the nuclear apocalypse have something to live for because it can still get better with time and humanity might still have a chance to rebuild, but not a supernatural apocalypse orchestrated by forces literally beyond our rational and scientific comprehension.
Oh haha, Gee whiz neighbor, I wish I could say different but I’m quite certain I would eat the lips clean off your head if I had to.
That’s not to say I would never consider doing that with some friends though.
For a long time the plan was to head up to my friend’s house. Cuz he was big into guns and lived basically in the middle of nowhere.
We talked about being defensive but helpful as possible, without sticking our heads out too far.
He passed away a couple years ago and now I’m not sure what the hell we’d do. I’ve always been outdoorsy, so probably go to one of the woods I’m familiar with and hide out, at least for a bit, to see how things pan out.
So, very defensive, but not very aggressive.
Edit: I’m also pushing 50. I’m still pretty fit, but it better happen soon or we’ll probably end up sitting here. Defending the house as long as possible.
Yeah interesting to see old age would affect people’s outlook of the apocalypse. I’d like to think the older I get the more I’d look more to the future and leaving the a legacy even in a shitty cataclysm
Depends. I’d focus on participating in a disciplined community that can develop some degree of self-sufficience, and if feasible focus on producing some surplus goods to trade with other groups, like alcohol as disinfectant or fuel for goods we need. We would still practice self-defense.
