Guess this is an ad hoc poll for where on the spectrum would you be on the zombie apocalypse, but I do expect halo effect to alter the results.

The question is would you be hostile or friendly to other survivors you come across if they had no recourse for their actions

The main assumption is that You have the inherent resistance to the plague so that way you can you can start in a heavily populated area and make your way out or live in there.

I would be curious if people would hide away for the rest of their lives in a cabin in the woods.

  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    As much as I would like to be friendly, I live in America. The reality of the situation is that a lot of the people who will survive the initial hardship are going to be conservative preppers who currently try to deny my right to exist. There’s no way I could be friendly with them, just as I would not expect them to be able to be friendly with me.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      29 days ago

      I’d be curious how far they would get, they would have food to hold out and ammo to Hunt, but I feel like they would make a simple mistake like not taking care of a wound properly.

      Yeah I can see marginalized communities would be standoffish

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    If I wanted to isolate myself from society altogether I’d probably already be doing that a lot more than I currently am. I keep to myself more than most, perhaps, but I’m not interested in becoming a recluse

  • CrocodilloBombardino@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The best strategy in an emergency is always mostly cooperation. There will be some awful behavior to look out for, plus with zombies you’ll need a means of keeping them out and screening people for signs of zombification, but it’ll be hard to survive and do that stuff without a community. Many hands, diversity of skills, people to talk to, etc.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Shit, I’m hostile now.

    Legit, I’m usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don’t trust any motherfucker at my back until they’ve proven they can be trusted.

    That’s how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Fortunately, a samurai is probably better equipped to handle the undead than the average person.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Depends. I’d focus on forming a disciplined community that can develop some degree of self-sufficience, and if feasible focus on producing some surplus goods to trade with other groups, like alcohol for disinfectant or fuel. Groups or individuals hostile to us would be met with force.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      Factually not true. You’ll notice that even in Gaza, people shove each other to get at the scraps but that’s it for open inter-civilian violence, and extended families are still looking out for each other.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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        30 days ago

        That’s mostly their religion keeping the social fabric together. Israel can keep their entire family and they will say God is sufficient for them 5 seconds later. These things don’t happen anywhere else. And even in Palestine there’s opportunists like the Abu Shabab gang.

  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lolEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Zombie apocalypse or not, I’d love to hide away for the rest of my life in a cabin in the woods.

  • goodnighttothe_spoon@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I dunno. I actually think about this sometimes. I’d like to think I’d be friendly, but it depends on how everything went for me leading up to wherever I end up. If I lost my entire family, I would probably become pretty hostile towards everything. If I wound up in a big safe place with lots of supplies and people, I’d probably be more friendly, but also wary of anyone new.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Zombies are so dumb, they don’t even know where the brains are, they always go after the abdomen.

    If you can’t defeat a slow moving undead creature with fewer active brain cells than Donald Turnip, then that’s on you…

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    People tend to change when facing true hunger and scarcity. Hard to tell. It can go really quickly into shoot first ask questions later, but really depends on the depth of desperation.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      I forgot to add an assumption that there would be plenty of food and resources since their would be empty houses with food in them at people’s time of death. You could be the 1 survivor in 50 or 1 in 1000 so like you’re gonna get enough food for years to come. Of course there’s farms that might be planted that will be ready for harvest.

      It’s weird to think you can invade a power plant and raid the fridge.

      You could take on a small structure and move up to a small town then cities once you’re conditioned.

      But that’s just me musing

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    How my fellow USians handled (and are still handling) COVID-19 showed my wife & me that there are only four or five people we can actually trust in a zombie apocalypse. Everyone else would get got for either not taking it seriously enough or not being reliably vigilant.

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    I assume zombies function like in Plague Inc. They eventually just starve to death after some months, so just being closed in couls be okay for some months imo.

    But I would be a cautiosly friendly one prob who eventually gets exploited by trusting in people sorta.