What’s complicated is that once you revert to that state can you ever again become civilized?
Different situations don’t, or shouldn’t, change your morality. Why is your or my life worth more than anyone else’s? If for instance, someone has food and I’m starving. Does that mean I’m right for killing them and taking their food?
One thing that’s going to come with an Apocalyptic situation is deciding if life is worth living. And a whole lot of people are going to choose no. And not just because of pain and suffering, but for the loss of morality. Which again, is kind of what the show is about.
It’s always funny, sad really, that I have to point out to a lot of people, not you, but a lot. That this series is not about Zombies.
Of course you can. If you're shipwrecked on a desert island and your only chance to survive is to eat your shipmates, that doesn't mean that you'd be a cannibal at home on the weekends.
Different situations don’t, or shouldn’t, change your morality.
Survival IS my morality. Not necessarily at any price, but if it's some aggressor or me, there is no hesitation on my part.
Why is your or my life worth more than anyone else’s?
Because to me, my life is absolute. Absent my life, none of this morality discussion even has any meaning. Dead people don't have any morality.
If for instance, someone has food and I’m starving. Does that mean I’m right for killing them and taking their food?
That depends. If they only have enough food for them, and taking their food won't really help you survive for much longer, then no, it doesn't make any sense. But if they have plenty and aren't willing to share, and you are on the verge of starvation with no other options, then to hell with them. Kill them and take it.
One thing that’s going to come with an Apocalyptic situation is deciding if life is worth living. And a whole lot of people are going to choose no. And not just because of pain and suffering, but for the loss of morality. Which again, is kind of what the show is about.
Then those people should just off themselves early on. They're not fit to live in the world as it has become anyway.
this series is not about Zombies.
It was. It's not any more. And that's part of the problem.