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.
If I wanted to isolate myself from society altogether I’d probably already be doing that a lot more than I currently am. I keep to myself more than most, perhaps, but I’m not interested in becoming a recluse
Friendly! I have experience growing food and I’m pretty good at cooking it too. Someone else can teach me how to kill and eat the deer that infest this area so that we can have a balanced diet. We will do mutual aid and survive against challenges that we could not face alone. Apes together strong.
Yeah I’d try to bring power back to whatever survivors are left so that fridges could run to preserve food longer. It’s funny to think we would start to like each other when we start sharing expertise
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.
Nah, Muslims are just slightly remixed Christians.
The same scene played out across many continents last century.
I would be friendly to those playing coop and hostile to those who are not.
Assuming I’ve already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I’d try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.
But all that probably means I’d die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn’t cut it being alone and starting out I’d probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of “friends”. To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.
I imagine my morality falling into a kin kith system as resources are stretched thin.
People tend to change when facing true hunger and scarcity. Hard to tell. It can go really quickly into shoot first ask questions later, but really depends on the depth of desperation.
I forgot to add an assumption that there would be plenty of food and resources since their would be empty houses with food in them at people’s time of death. You could be the 1 survivor in 50 or 1 in 1000 so like you’re gonna get enough food for years to come. Of course there’s farms that might be planted that will be ready for harvest.
It’s weird to think you can invade a power plant and raid the fridge.
You could take on a small structure and move up to a small town then cities once you’re conditioned.
But that’s just me musing
I’m generally a nice person who wants to help and do right by other people. But, I also have to balance that with my abundant paranoia and distrust of people. So I dunno.
I’d be weird and leave radios for people to find and then have them contact me from a distance
I dunno. I actually think about this sometimes. I’d like to think I’d be friendly, but it depends on how everything went for me leading up to wherever I end up. If I lost my entire family, I would probably become pretty hostile towards everything. If I wound up in a big safe place with lots of supplies and people, I’d probably be more friendly, but also wary of anyone new.
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.
Zombies are so dumb, they don’t even know where the brains are, they always go after the abdomen.
If you can’t defeat a slow moving undead creature with fewer active brain cells than Donald Turnip, then that’s on you…
Lol zombies stop being an issue pretty fast in a zombie apocalypse
What if they are like the ones in World War Z? Fast and ferocious.
I feel like this is bait.
They certainly seem to be a master at it.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week…
Maybe…
At first, hostile. Once things settle and communities start to form, I’ll be friendly. But for the first few months, I’ll be protecting family and possessions aggressively.
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.
Rrsident Evil has prepared me for this situation.
BRAINS
