What happens when they're all dead?
What happens to a person, who has become so accustomed to killing zombies, when the last one is killed? When you've been encouraged to do something like that for so long, you can't really just flip the switch; nightmarish memories will surely linger and rust the mind. I think that it would take a while for the paranoia and fear to dissipate because I know that it will not leave with the last of the walking dead. Besides a couple million damaged psyches and the deterioration of civility, what other aftershocks would there be due to the zombie apocalypse?
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Permalink Reply by ♪♫ Dawn ♫♪ on -
I think humanity is at it's worst now. I can only imagine after a Z-apoc. I think people will fight over who needs to clean up what mess, turning into this:
"I don't need to take your crap. I just spent the last (X) amount of years being on my own and being my own boss. You are not my boss...."
The of course you will have the people that think they can push everyone else around...
"You WILL clean it up, because I have a gun and I will shoot you if you don't."
Either that, or people will keep banded with the little groups (if any) that they have been forced to be with for so long. I think that comfort will play a big part in what happens. It just matters how comfortable people are with each other. And I agree, it would definitely take time to get used to "civilization" again.
Of course, that's just my opinion....
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Permalink Reply by The Newcomer on -
True true
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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on -
Sit on a mountaintop, unscrew the cap on the bottle of Jack that I saved for however long it took and say "F**k!".
I also think that people will already be banded together and have their new hierarchies set up. I suppose it all depends on how many are left.
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Permalink Reply by ♪♫ Dawn ♫♪ on
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That's what I was saying, about the little niches of people being together.
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Permalink Reply by A smart zombie on -
And that shalt be start of the forming of a new nation.
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Permalink Reply by Rob Taylor on -
I don't think I'll ever see it in my life time.
But I think it will be a pretty messes up society afterwards, very primal... It'll effect a us for several generations after the last Z has been destroyed.
But we are already at a stage where violence doesn't seem like a choice anymore, more like a natural reaction, fighting off that instinct in social situations maybe hard, and may prevent us from restoring the human population.
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Permalink Reply by JJ on -
I do see your point. Aggression comes in many forms, and, sometimes, the struggle to survive becomes one of the most interesting. During a struggle, two forces must compete against one another; there will always be the victorious and the defeated. Is it wrong to ensure your own survival by threatening that of another? More often then not, the answer is yes; it is during the times that the answer is no when your humanity will truly be tested.
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Permalink Reply by Apocalpyse on -
Ahh very interesting thought actually. My guess would be that we will have by this point returned to a more technologially advanced stone age (ironic i know, but knowledge won't necassarily die, civilisation, however, will for a little while)
People will probably quite happilly kill each other if they need to, it's one thing to remove society from the human, but my question would be how much stress strain and violence does it take to remove the human from a human. It's known that we'll do terrible things to survive, that "habbit" would be a difficult thing to break when a natural threat that would unite us disappears. Wouldn't be long before we turn on each other, life wouldn't become civilised (if comparing to modern society, minus the luxuries) for many many many generations, we're all animals at heart.
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Permalink Reply by JJ on
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Technologically advanced stone age...hmmm.....that's right! we wouldn't have smelting and such....interesting!
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Permalink Reply by JJ on
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After a zombie apocalypse, I don't think a "normal" society would be definable.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mark on -
"The more things change, the more they stay the same". Any new society formed in the aftermath of the apocalypse would be the same as the ones before it. You cannot change human nature. When all the zombies were dead, we would resume killing each other.
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