Everyone is familiar with the movie, I am Legend.
The movie is about people who have been infected with cancer and have been injected
with what doctors thought was an antidote that will cure them. Soon enough, the
cancer patients go from on the verge of dying to becoming the undead who are still
infected, also known as zombies. Those who aren’t infected begin to retreat and
find ways to not only protect themselves from becoming infected but to cure the
zombies. However, maybe the uninfected are looking at this situation all wrong.
Evolution is the key, and without evolution we would have never evolved. The
zombie apocalypse shouldn’t be looked at as a disaster, but the next step in
evolution. We started as animals that evolved and adapted to our environments
and allowed ourselves to be labeled “humans”. Now we should be able to take the
next step and not settle for living for a certain amount of years, but to
continue to walk the earth even after death. With all the actions of a zombie
we would have to ask the ethical questions, can zombies meet up to the
expectations of the threat of unreasonable demands and is ethic frutile?
Becoming a
zombie looks mortifying but in reality if everyone became one, life wouldn’t be
so terrifying. Zombies are already what we claim to be “infected” this means
that if we became zombies we would be immune to all diseases that the world
provides us with. No need for antidotes, medication or health care. One of the
main concerns we have in today’s society is health. Whether it’s mental or
physical health, it’s an issue every day and some people have a hard time
dealing with the stress of it. Paying for health care becomes even more
stressful on people, leading them to lose their life due to the lack of medical
attention. The world is screwed up enough, people turning into zombies couldn’t
make it any worse. Over time zombies could go from barbaric and infected
creatures to independent and intelligent walking corpse.
You may observe the behavior of a zombie and claim
they are worse than humans and that if humans are to evolve to something else
it shouldn’t be back to something that acts like an animal. However, we need to
keep in mind that we were once barbaric and grew to become “in some cases”
civil and communicative humans. Over time zombies could become less aggressive
and have human like behaviors again. It could take years, but with time zombies
could gain the potential to rebuild what they destroyed. The world and its life
forms have been formed and destroyed for over billions of years. A zombie apocalypse
would be another drastic change for the earth but who says it could lead to the
end of society? Urban dictionary likes to label a zombie apocalypse as “The end of the world by way of biochemically regenerated humans that’s
only plan is to kill off all life on the planet. Zombies are the Archenemy of
the Free Agents.” I personally don’t believe that’s the only
motive zombies have. It’s time that people look at a zombie apocalypse from a
different perspective.
Becoming
a zombie would never meet up to the expectations of the threat of unreasonable
demands. The threat of unreasonable demands are as follows: never kill, never
lie, never steal, never gossip , always forgive, always be kind, always be
generous, always turn the other check. Does this mean that because zombies cannot
meet up to the expectations of the threat of unreasonable demands that a zombie apocalypse could never happen?
Zombies are killers and unkind and have these motives because they aren’t able
to control themselves. If the life of a zombie consists of killing, would
killing be considered wrong in the new zombie ruled world? Zombies have proved
that our genes aren’t preprogramed, if that was the case then our genes wouldn’t
alter after we transformed into a zombie. Since this is true, that disproves
the theory of ethics being futile and the threat of unreasonable demands. A zombie apocalypse can disprove many
ethical theories
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