Is it possible for zombies to exist?
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Zombies as in rising from the dead? No way. Zombies as a medical condition? Proven. the frontal lobe controls anger, and a small part of your brain controls both hunger and anger (awesome right?) so if the frontal lobe goes brain dead, and you get hungry you could chase after people so you can feed both your anger and stomach. So yes zombies (at least these ones) are proven. Debate (somewhat) closed. Side: Yes
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duh, we're already preparing for it: Side: Yes
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The whole "Thriller" version of zombies, you know, the ones where they rise from the grave, completely unrealistic. The whole "World War Z" version of zombies, you know, a disease causing people to go crazy and loose control of their ability to stay sane, it could actually happen. It might not be a disease that could cause a zombie apocalypse, but drugs could have some effects as well. Side: Yes
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Not likely. And if you think about it zombies are conceptually a thing doomed to extinction. Their only food source is also their only mode of reproduction. If they eat all the humans, they cease reproduction and starve back to death. If they infect all the humans, reproduction stops and they starve back to death. If any humans survive uninfected and uneaten, it would be a simple matter of waiting until zombie reproduction stopped and they all starved back to death before humans could reclaim earth. Side: No
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Humans can often chase down one another, but humans are not usually able to catch animals unassisted. That's why we have fishing poles and hunting rifles and traps and such. And zombies are basically just slow, brain-dead humans, so they have an even smaller chance of being able to catch an animal; certainly they wouldn't be able to successfully hunt enough game to survive. A cognitive, trained hunter with tracking skills and a gun would still be hard pressed to kill enough game to live off of; a zombie has no chance. So that would reduce them to primarily scavenging dead carcasses, an activity where they would have to compete with a number of scavenger animals that are generally better suited for the task of scavenging, as well as other zombies. So I'm not convinced zombies could successfully hunt animals or find dead animals often enough to survive as a species. Zombies aren't really designed for a long and prosperous life as a species. Side: No
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