Question for pro-lifers.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


I remember it. Do you remember I didn't like it?

I only watch monster movies if there's a bed nearby, so I can crawl under it and take shelter behind the dust bunnies.

Yeah ok, no 28 Days.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Elok
Given that even healthy babies are not well coordinated or intelligent, how are zombified ones supposed to be blocking my way? What exactly is keeping me from brushing them aside, or for the bigger ones kicking them out of the way? Assuming I'm wearing jeans and the zombification process hasn't given them razor fangs, I should be able to pry off any that latch on long before they reach my skin, just using the butt end of the shotgun.

Elok would kick a dead baby.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lancer
Elok would kick a dead baby.

I'm so using this against him should he ever run for public office.

[Lancer]

Yes, this limits him. He better take up forum modding now.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov




So when I get a cold, I'm a Picornaviridae by association?

I don't think the transitive property works like that...

Okay back to your original point of zombies having to be undead creatures. That simply is not true, much like evolution or global warming.

Take Half-Life for example, you would find tons of scientists who were turned into zombies by parasitic headcrabs. A zombie is something that has been subverted and controled by some greater power be it parasites, a virus, radiation from space, or magic. Zombies don't have to be undead.

[Lancer]

Isn't there some wierd bug that turns its host bug into a zombie?

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Elok
Given that even healthy babies are not well coordinated or intelligent, how are zombified ones supposed to be blocking my way? What exactly is keeping me from brushing them aside, or for the bigger ones kicking them out of the way? Assuming I'm wearing jeans and the zombification process hasn't given them razor fangs, I should be able to pry off any that latch on long before they reach my skin, just using the butt end of the shotgun.

The virus has given the babies the innate ability to jump several feet and razor sharp teeth. If you don't fight them, they could jump to your neck and bite into your jugular. You would die by bleeding to death and would be forever remembered as "that guy who was killed by a baby." Haven't you seen the movies? The sympathetic ones who play down the danger of zombies always die first.

[Kidlicious]

So they aren't evil zombies then? That makes for a difficult decision.

[Riesstiu IV]

The lab that created the virus is evil though since it was built on top of an Indian burial ground.

[Kidlicious]

Still, though, if I would have known that the zombies themselves weren't evil I might have voted invalidly a different way.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
Okay back to your original point of zombies having to be undead creatures. That simply is not true, much like evolution or global warming.

Take Half-Life for example, you would find tons of scientists who were turned into zombies by parasitic headcrabs. A zombie is something that has been subverted and controled by some greater power be it parasites, a virus, radiation from space, or magic. Zombies don't have to be undead.

You are, quite simply, a heretic. Your definition of zombie is false.

A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.

There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. One possible origin is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost".[1] Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."[1] According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the etymology is from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, of Bantu origin.[2] A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will.[3] It is akin to the Kimbundu nzúmbe ghost. These words are approximately from 1871.[2]

Wikipedia is flawless, so thus you are refuted.

If it ain't dead, it ain't a zombie.

[Wiglaf]

Thanks a lot for putting my assessment of your posts in your signature. Sometimes people need a reminder

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
If it ain't dead, it ain't a zombie.

QFT

Upon death, a human bifurcates into a spirit and a corpse.

If the spirit passes up to Heaven, it becomes an angel.
If it says here, it becomes a ghost.

If the corpse rots, it become a skeleton.
If the corpse doesn't rot, it beomes a mummy.
If the corpse gets up and lurches around, it's a zombie.

Nuff said.

[Felch]

I'm pro-life, but anti-zombie. The choice here is pretty clear.

Nuke them from orbit.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm pro-zombie, but anti-life.