Indeed by killing zombies you are protecting life, and they are often called simply ‘the walking dead’

However, the way I see it is that you have to accept that by protecting your own life you may have to kill something else ‘alive’. I put it in the same category as killing a bear that attacks your family, not a very pro-life thing to do, but you have to do it.

It is a huge step to include zombies in ‘things that are alive’ but if you do, then I feel that it follows the same argument.

If you protect your own existence by killing a zombie, you are being pro-life AND anti-zombie. That was the general statement that I just attempted to spit out in that last comment.

–dj

If you are pro-life, does that include yourself? If you are pro-life, then you must protect your own existence and that of others, which is nearly impossible when concerning zombies, because if you hug a zombie, your face may go missing.

Also, Zombies are commonly classified as the “walking dead.

(Thank you for making my week and responding to something I write. Every time I do a blog, it never kicks off, and I leave it to rot and waste space. And you’re helping out my debating skills, which suck. Seriously dude, you made my week.)

–dj

The Solanum virus used in “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks is to at least some moderate extent informed by George Romero movies. This is significant because zombies in these and related movies show that zombies learn and adapt to environments. In some they go so far as coordinating and communicating in some way.

This would qualify the zombies as sentient, even if only minimally. Therefore they meet the life standard beyond simply being a disease host.

–dj