Comments on: What of the zombie apocalypse — Dr. Anarchy responds

By: Jack McHugh

Jack McHugh — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:09:40 +0000

Of course zombification is death, and the dead person’s property thus inheritable. The “person” who inhabited the corporeal shell has been replaced by a mindless creature that as the passage says is not a “moral actor.” It’s no different than if you killed me and draped my skin over a robot, or a cougar – I’m gone, and something else has replaced me inside that skin. It would be a violation of equity to deny my heirs until a zombie-fighter pumps some buckshot into my lizard-brain.

By: MerryMonk

MerryMonk — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:00:42 +0000

What, I asked, does “reversibly zombified” mean?

From the unabridged, unofficial (duh) yet curiously strong Anarchist’s Dictionary:

“reversibly zombified”
-adjective
1. A person whose behavior or responses are wooden, listless, or seemingly rote but who nonetheless watches South Park

2. Anyone still horny after consuming 6 or more of a tall drink made typically with several kinds of rum, citrus juice, and often apricot liqueur.

3. an automaton such as a voter who nonetheless has enough self respect to evade jury duty

4. A “citizen” who says “Why?” more often than they mindlessly say “I believe in”

By: Aaron Kinney

Aaron Kinney — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:00:18 +0000

I’ve been practicing my zombie-slaying skills in Left 4 Dead just in case such an emergency arises.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:20:33 +0000

“This means that any property held by a person becoming irreversibly zombified becomes unowned, and is therefore subject to immediate homesteading by the first comer.”

Here is another question for propertarian philosophers to ponder:

In one of the later scenes of Zorba the Greek, Madame Hortense dies. Wikipedia describes it as follows:

“Zorba stays by her side, along with Basil. Meanwhile, word gets round that “the foreigner” is dying, and that since she has no heirs, the State will take all her possessions and money. The villagers crowd round her house, impatiently waiting for her death so they can steal her belongings.”

The question is: were the villagers “stealing” M. Hortense’s items or were they simply “homesteading” them?

By: MCLA

MCLA — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:35:54 +0000

“To me, an irreversibly zombified human could not be considered a moral actor”

Methinks you are letting off a large chunk of mankind.