When does survival take a back seat?

[Ball Tripper]

What situation would ever make you do something not in the best interest of survival?

On the run and your best friend's leg is broken, do you help him even though the zombies might catch up to your slower pace?

Already got a full pack and there is a box of ammo beside a bottle of your favorite booze, which do you take?

If you're starving, do you run the pockets of the nasty rotting zombie you just killed for the small chance he might have a candy bar on him?



I'd like to think I could do a lot for the sake of survival but there are some things that would easily tempt me. If I raided a pharmacy in the ZPAW, I would very likely pass over the penicillin for the oxy contin.

[bandits1]

A few days or months or years of hiding, running from, and fighting zombies, I could see myself being stressed out enough to opt for a case of Budweiser or a bottle of Jack Daniel's over something more vital like medicine or first-aid supplies.

It would all depend on the person, the stess-level, and current immediate surrounding environment.

[Jimmy]

Originally Posted by Ball Tripper

What situation would ever make you do something not in the best interest of survival?

On the run and your best friend's leg is broken, do you help him even though the zombies might catch up to your slower pace?

Yes, I couldn't live with myself knowing I left someone that I could have saved behind.

Already got a full pack and there is a box of ammo beside a bottle of your favorite booze, which do you take?

The ammo, I rarely drink.

If you're starving, do you run the pockets of the nasty rotting zombie you just killed for the small chance he might have a candy bar on him?

No, there are plenty of places for me to find food at. Why would someone risk the chance of somehow getting the infection by digging in a zombies pocket for a candybar? The chances are slim to none that someone would be stupid enough to put a candybar in their pocket.


I'd like to think I could do a lot for the sake of survival but there are some things that would easily tempt me. If I raided a pharmacy in the ZPAW, I would very likely pass over the penicillin for the oxy contin.

Penicillin would help your body heal from infection. Oxy would only temporarily stop the pain but over time it would destroy your liver. >_>

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[Screwballgunnut]

My thoughts, put in the same format as Jimmy, I like his approach

Originally Posted by Ball Tripper

What situation would ever make you do something not in the best interest of survival?

On the run and your best friend's leg is broken, do you help him even though the zombies might catch up to your slower pace?

Depends on how badly his leg is broken, how far it is to the truck/safety and what size of zombie horde we're up against. If its a compound fracture, in desperate need of complicated surgery, 15 miles from the compound in a horde of 7500, that becomes a case of either one of us will survive, or neither of us. If its 200 yards to the compound, he's got a minor break, and there are 15 zombies, hell yeah, the fights gunna be big time brawling.

Already got a full pack and there is a box of ammo beside a bottle of your favorite booze, which do you take?

Assuming its the right ammo for my rifle/pistol/shotgun, and Jack Daniels, well, then something less practical, like toilet paper or dirty socks, is going to get tossed out of the pack

If you're starving, do you run the pockets of the nasty rotting zombie you just killed for the small chance he might have a candy bar on him?

Given that I've grown up in the woods, living off the land, its gunna be a really bad situation if I'm THAT hungry. I can find dinner in some really unlikely places, and by eating things most folks would say, "You're not really going to eat that, are you?"

I'd like to think I could do a lot for the sake of survival but there are some things that would easily tempt me. If I raided a pharmacy in the ZPAW, I would very likely pass over the penicillin for the oxy contin.

Go ahead, take the oxy contin, tylenol 3, Zanax, or prozac, or what ever other "modern miracle" prescription drug. When you go space cadet, as almost always happens with those sort of pills, you'll get careless and the zeds get you, I'll be glad to divide your gear up between me and the rest of us

[JakAttak]

don't throw out Prosac in a Zed world might need something to up your spirits.

[Screwballgunnut]

Originally Posted by JakAttak

don't throw out Prosac in a Zed world might need something to up your spirits.

Drugs affect people differently, but most of the people I see taking prozac seem to loose a bit of their sense, and tend to get very happy go lucky, not recognizing danger as quickly and such. Maybe I'm just too masochistic, but I'd rather accept hell than risk turning stupid because I decided to pop some pill.

[Faran Brigo]

That sounds more like Valium than Prozac, I've taken both by prescription. Valium might be useful because it will steady your pulse and won't impair your judgement if you take a small amount only.

[ashley]

Valium useful? Not for me... I have to take it before dentist appointments and it sends me for a loop. Makes me feel drunk.

[Faran Brigo]

Well, some people have more tolerance than others I suppose.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Heres another question

What if you found a starving mother and her child, and you have limited supplies, or you might have to risk your life getting them back to where your shelter is, or mother and child asked to be let in your shelter? Or just anybody that might need help, do you have that hero in you?

[Faran Brigo]

Hell no. I already want to flush children talking during the movie in the theather down the toilet, I'm not taking an annoying, snotty, useless mouth to feed into my shelter.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Originally Posted by Faran Brigo

Hell no. I already want to flush children talking during the movie in the theather down the toilet, I'm not taking an annoying, snotty, useless mouth to feed into my shelter.

What if the mother was smoking hot?

[Faran Brigo]

There's just no amount of "hot" that would make me put up with an Edward Furlong. Except if I was going to use the kid as an emergency food source.

[Lian]

I'll just play it by ear. It's all anyone can do, everything is situational.

I'll tell you that unless my friend in dead or honest to god dying though I'm not leaving him behind. I'll figure something out but leave no man behind isn't just pretty words to me.

Survival simply isn't always enough. What's the point of surviving if you hate life? So by all means pass up the ammo and get the bottle of Jack. Or take both and leave something less vital behind like....that half empty propane tank for the pack stove.

And to be honest I'll be rooting through zombies pockets for anything useful anyway. The candy bar would just be an added bonus.

And I for one couldn't leave a mother and child behind to starve to death. Starvation sucks, to put it lightly, most people in industrialized society won't realize how much it sucks until something bad like this happens. Who knows they might even come in handy later on.

[JakAttak]

Maybe it's just the true cold hearted bastard I am talking but I wouldn't just leave injured people behind but I'd take their stuff and leave them with a pistol with one shot in the chamber then take the mag.