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Evil, Moral, And Moral Justice

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It would be easy to justify killing a zombie if I was laying on the ground with a zombie on top of me with its hand just inches away from reaching my face. While looking into its eyes and seeing the only thing on its minds is the desire to tear my face off to get to my delicious brains. However, is it as easy to justifying killing a zombie when it is not harming you? I believe that looking into my mother’s undead eyes as she is chained up in some barn could not be much better than ending her life. It is not ethical to keep a person dead or alive locked up in a barn with no way to escape. I believe that if my family were transformed into zombies I would have no moral obligations towards them.
The first issue of zombies is determining if they are alive or dead. If they are rational beings that follow a set of moral code that is that they are moral agents that can demonstrate a capacity of morality .The other option is that they are moral patients who are not rational or moral. Since zombies are fictional beings it is hard to define them as one thing or another. In Thompson’s essay “She’s Not Your Mother Anymore. She’s a Zombie!”:Zombies, Values, and Personal Identity he explains that, “Zombies present us with beings who appear to be alive, but who lack the rich mental life that we associate with “normal” persons. Their decay and disintegration is rather more indicative of death than life.”(30) In horror movies they come in all shapes and sizes. Some are fast some are slow,

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