[K5pbem] Current events affecting the K5 universe

[Michael Surbrook]

On Sep 3, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Warren Bailey wrote:

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>> I've personally never found zombies to be particularly scary, I  
>> have difficulty suspending disbelief enough to consider a  
>> shambling,  semi-decayed corpse as a threat.  Sure it would smell  
>> bad but the dead are very flexible and their strutural integrity  
>> isn't good,  that's all part of the beig dead thing.

The fear comes from several factors.

1) It's dead... how do you "kill" it?

2) There are a lot more dead people than living people.

3) If zombies can create more zombies by killing the living, then you  
have the fear of disease and plague.

4) If the zombies simple eat people, you have the "eaten alive" fear  
(which one of the things that makes JAWS scary).

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