If your loved one got all full blown hollywood makeup zombified and woke you from your sleep by trying to bite you. what is your immediate reaction? Would you kill them?
As soon as it paused I probably would get it, If she came screaming out at me in the dark, I would probably at least lay her(it). We train together a bit, so i doubt she would to that unless she was out of striking distance.
more than likely, they're pretty much dead anyway. except maybe my brother, I'd just pull a shaun of the dead and keep him locked up in the tool shed while I trained him to play videogames again.
if you mean wearing zombie makeup and scaring me like Bill F'n Murray, then it depends, if I'm holding a gun and they jump out all made up and moaning, then it probably would be intinctual at that point, a reflex, I'd feel bad, but no use crying after the deed's done.
if they wake me up and I don't have a weapons around me, I'd probably be so busy trying to get distance between us that they can go 'phsyc!" and let me know they aren't really zombified
Okay, if there is no Zpoc going on then they will likely live. If we're in the middle of a Zpoc and it is a zed then pop. If we're in a Zpoc and it is someone in makeup then Pop. They deserve to be shot anyway.
They would certainly know i didn't apriciate it, and i think a Zombie complaining about the fact i just broke it's nose would kinda let me know it's not real.