The Walking Dead and Philosophy: Zombie Apocalypse Now (The by Wayne Yuen

By Wayne Yuen

Rick, Lori, Shane, Carl, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne--human survivors of a zombie apocalypse--don't understand a lot approximately philosophy, yet philosophical principles proceed to shamble on via their international, and there is no excape from them.

The strolling Dead is either a highly profitable comics sequence and a well-liked television express. This epic tale of a zombie apocalypse is exclusive. It specializes in the long term person, social, and ethical results of survival by way of small teams of people in a global overrun via contaminated zombies.

Guns, chainsaws, and machetes aren't sufficient for survival: people additionally want contract on ideas of behavior. Can equality or equity have any polace within the post-apocalyptic international? Do robbery or maybe attack and homicide turn into ok lower than determined situations? Who may be well-known as having political authority? What approximately consuming human flesh? may still survivors have children?

As zombies have low IQs, poor manners, and the overwhelming urge to devour humans, have they got any rights in any respect? Am I nonetheless me if I develop into a zombie? Do zombies comprehend something? are they rational? wouldn't it be moral to coach a zombie and maintain it as a puppy? What the heck are P-zombies? And why could all of us leap on the chance

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