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CMV: Zombies, such as those in the Walking Dead, would never pose a threat to humans

I've begun watching the Walking Dead again, after struggling to make it through the first time. I am trying really hard to enjoy this show. One pretty massive problem persists throughout the entire show though, and that is that *the zombies suck*. There is no way that zombies, as usually depicted in popular fiction such as the Walking Dead, would pose any kind of threat to humanity.

Let me first start off by saying that yes, some forms of fiction demonstrate the concept of Zombies differently. Some may pose *a little* more of a threat than the pathetic Walking Dead zombies, such as by being faster or more intelligent. In general, though, I don't believe any kind of zombie outbreak would pose a realistic threat to humanity. I will, however, focus my post on the zombies that are featured in the Walking Dead, mainly because it is probably where most people have seen what a world like this may look like.

There is also different ways of looking at the threat level of a zombie outbreak when considering location and % of population infected. You could imagine a circumstance when the outbreak first begins and when the amount of infected would be very low, that the disease would be eradicated quickly. I am not going to even argue that though. We'll just assume that *somehow* the number of infected seem to be 90%+ of the population such as is depicted in the Walking Dead. The location also matters as well. You could imagine that in America, with an abundance of weapons, that is would be even easier to kill the defenseless zombies. For the sake of simplicity, we'll look at the particular circumstance of the Walking Dead.

I'll go ahead and get right down to the fundamental problem that these zombies have: Lack of **Speed and Coordination**. These zombies are slow, very very slow. For this simple reason, even humans with no athletic or combat experience would have no trouble outmaneuvering these zombies. They would also be particularly easy to kill. Even in the Walking Dead, there are scenes where children are killing these things *in melee combat*. So even ignoring all the easy access to firearms that the group has in America, it really wouldn't matter. Any melee weapon is capable of killing these things, so if this same scenrio were to happen in a place with more restrictive firearm access it still would not matter. 

There is another large reason that zombies would not pose a threat, and it is more universal to all ways zombies have been depicted in fiction. It is because zombies are **Extremely Predictable**. Zombies follow a very simple ruleset, such as being attracted by loud noises and light. And you know what humans are really, really good at? Exploiting predictable behavior to our advantage. We have become experts at factory farming animals, and these zombies pose more predictable and abusable behavior than any animal. Zombies could be exploited in exactly the same way. And because they have seemingly infinite energy (or *extremely, extremely efficient energy*), they would serve humans greatly. In a sense, a zombie outbreak with the energy mechanics of the Walking Dead would be one of the most beneficial things to humanity, as it would basically give us infinite labor. 

Only in the most outrageous circumstances does someone actually get infected by one of these things, usually due to terrible planning and being in a place they obviously should not be. The only reason anyone ever dies on the show is that it seems to feature extremely stupid people with some of the worst conflict resolution skills on the planet. I think that's why a lot of people (including myself) stopped watching once they got to the jail; because as long as they were reasonably smart, they should never have any problems. 

And again this is in the scenario where most of the population is already infected. Even in a situation like the Walking Dead where zombies to humans seem to be 99:1, it still shouldn't be a problem to survive. It would be exponentially easier to eradicate an outbreak when the disease is in its infancy and the population infected could be isolated and wiped out. Simply put, I just don't see how zombie outbreaks pose any sort of a threat to humanity.
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TWD zombies propagated  quickly because everyone carries an incubated virus. When they die, they become zombies. It's a problem that never goes away.everyone killed that day comes right back.  Ever car crash victim, sick person or person shot. Thousands of people die every flday. Now imagine the panic that would be caused by dead people getting up and attacking. Industry would break down. Food shortages would start. People revert back to their instincts and kill each other for resources. Over time, the world would be overwhelmed. People never stopped dying. So zombies never stopped coming.