Zombies are they evil?
#1
Posted 28 October 2012 - 11:09 AM
I am not a fan of the genre and find it disturbing.
In Zombie movies and the like you are killing them en masse and usually in very violent ways, sometimes it's people familiar to the protagonists.
It makes me wonder why the genre is as popular as it is and if it could have a more sinister side to its popularity.
Zombies are essentially humans without the humanity which in turn removes the humanity of the protagonist/viewer to allow them to do things which not be moral or humane in other circumstances.
Zombies are also innocent participants whether they catch the virus that turns them or they come back from the dead they don't have control of their actions and lack free will.
So you have a case of the hero killing dozens of innocents in brutal fashion.
In the case of the virus strand of Zombies why kill Zombies when you can try to cure them?
Is it right to kill Zombies?
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#2
Posted 28 October 2012 - 11:50 AM
There is a movie/tv series we where discussing earlier on this year at collage so I should ask my friends if they can recall it. Basically, one part of it involved this sick girl keeping her zombified and de-teethed boyfriend in a barn so she could still see him.
Regardless, I do not like this new culture, and it is especially prevalent now as you say. I grew sick of it just as I grew sick of 'good' vampires. I don't care if they are pansy wimps, the very fact they are trying to make something evil by nature into something 'cool'.
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#3
Posted 28 October 2012 - 12:48 PM
I don't think they've been made just because it's a good example of 'how to get used to killing millions of people', but really to show the reaction of the few survivors.
However, I do also agree that the merciless massacre of people, even supposed 'dead' ones, shouldn't become something of a modern norm. Should've stayed as a more or less underground culture.
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 01:08 PM
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#5
Posted 28 October 2012 - 01:12 PM
Huh? Surely the zombies are the victims in this holocaust metaphor.Yes it is right to kill zombies, just as it was right to trial and jail the people involved in the holocaust.
#6
Posted 28 October 2012 - 01:12 PM
Pfft I never get credit for anything.Politicians are the real root of evil.
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#7
Posted 28 October 2012 - 01:25 PM
It's a case of who became the victim for mass murdering first. An outbreak involves zombification before anybody has a means of killing them.Huh? Surely the zombies are the victims in this holocaust metaphor.Yes it is right to kill zombies, just as it was right to trial and jail the people involved in the holocaust.
Technically the zombies kill first.
Edited by MattTheLegoman, 28 October 2012 - 01:26 PM.
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. - C.S. Lewis
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour
What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now? - Max Lucado
#8
Posted 28 October 2012 - 02:41 PM
#9
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:39 PM
As you say, zombies have no consciousness, and naturally decide to kill people, rather like a psychopath (definition: a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.). Shouldn't the same be applied by Hitler's decision to kill people, he had no morality, just as a zombie does. Or would if it existed. Anyway, Hitler's disregard is rather similar to the zombie's way of thinking, no?
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- Auxiliary Skarn, 2333rd Cohort
#10
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:24 PM
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#11
Posted 28 October 2012 - 06:04 PM
I mean Day of the Dead really explores some of this. A big chunk of the plot is around a scientist training a zombie to relearn basic communicative skills and training it not to act solely on impulse (so it doesn't eat him). Then of course the (perhaps) less human military guys destroy it all out of fear. Definately my favourite Romero 'Dead' movie. Great soundtrack too.
Edited by OmegaBolt, 28 October 2012 - 06:09 PM.
#12
Posted 28 October 2012 - 08:08 PM
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#13 Guest_Zombeh_*
Posted 29 October 2012 - 12:04 AM
Why do we fear zombies
because its something unseen that can spread through various ways, the though of being a mindless flesh muncher on top of the mass horde of mindless gnashing teeth of former humans, humans like yourself who have fallen
Are Zombies evil?
no, majority of zombie myth is that they are mindless creatures (not always human), evil coems from free-will and choice, not mindless actions
the question beneath that is, what do you consider evil?
some zombies are mindless like the living dead, stumbling around and "noming" on anything that moves.
the main type these days are virus infected zombies which are sensitive to being enraged and their brains are fried in the process leaving basic instincts or only motor functions. some are capable of minor free-will in some situations but they tend to be the 'higher ranked' zombies then the normal rabble
Why do we love watching zombies die?
seeing a few survivors being challenged by the out numbering odds and detours they must endure to survive. its that sense of thrill, challenge and taking on soemthing bigger then yourself is what the end goal is for, and taking them out in bloody or creative ways without being monotonous is rather joyful, its kind of like saying "fuck you" to that guy that's bigger then you
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#14
Posted 29 October 2012 - 01:37 AM
#15
Posted 29 October 2012 - 01:50 AM
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#16
Posted 29 October 2012 - 02:11 AM
#17
Posted 29 October 2012 - 09:35 AM
It's our minds that paints evil onto things that are a threat to us. Also, I'd say that knowing the difference between good or evil and choosing evil makes for a more viscious sort of evil, a treasonous act against humanity is usually worse than being turned into a mindless lump of flesh that has no say in what its instincts tell it to.
Edited by duke_Qa, 29 October 2012 - 09:37 AM.
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