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By:David Dietle August 17, 2010 

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Let’s pretend for a moment that zombies are real (as if half of you weren’t already daydreaming about that very thing). Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing? By the time we join our survivors, the military and government are already wiped out, and none of the streets are safe.

There’s a reason the movie starts there, and not earlier. It’s because the early part, where we go from one zombie to millions, doesn’t make any sense. If you let the creeping buzzkill of logic into the zombie party, you realize the zombies would all be re-dead long before you even got a chance to fire up that chainsaw motorcycle you’ve been working on. Why?

#7.

 

They Have Too Many Natural Predators

Do you know why we, as humans, are at the top of the current food chain? Not because we’re hard to kill (well, with the exception of Steven Seagal). We’re not; we’re little more than tasty flesh bags waiting for an errant horn or claw to spill our guts like a meat pinata. No, we’re on top simply because we are so absurdly good at killing things ourselves. A good offense, as they say, is the best de-LOOK THERE’S A DUCK! MURDER IT!

We are simply too smart and too well-armed for any wild animal to hunt. Now consider the poor zombie. It lacks every single advantage that has kept humanity from being eaten to extinction. It wanders around in the open, it can’t use weapons, it can’t think or use strategy. It doesn’t even have the sense of self preservation to run and hide when it’s in danger. And, it’s made entirely out of food. It’s easy prey for any animal that wants it.

If you’re saying, “Sure, but it’s not like my city is full of bears that can come eat all the zombies,” you need to think smaller. Insects are a major pain in the ass for living humans, and in some cases, being able to swat away flies and having an immune system is the only thing keeping us from having our eyes and tongues eaten out by maggots. Zombies in any part of the world with a fly problem are going to be swarming with maggots in short order, meaning that most of their soft tissues will be infested, and their eyes will be very quickly useless.

Not so disgusting now, are they? OK, yeah, but show a little respect.

We’ll scale up a bit: In America alone, we have bears, wolves, coyotes and cougars, all of which can put well-armed, thinking, fast-moving humans on the menu, if the conditions are right. To most predators, the “right conditions” are when the animal is weak or infirm, or otherwise generally unable to defend themselves, like a walking corpse. Hell, just think of the millions of stray dogs out there who’ll quickly learn that zombies are an easy meal.

Now imagine zombie hordes wandering Africa. Between lions and cape buffalo (and hippos, and rhinos, and elephants), we’d finally have a disease that Africa is better suited than the rest of the world to defend itself against.

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A few days ago I got into an argument with a tumblr user on Israel. It got out of hand, and became very negative, so I’ve deleted the original posts. Still, I believe criticism is one of the most important part of free speech, and by voicing our concerns and opinions, we are upholding the values of free speech.

This is particularly worrying when it comes to Israel, as mostly all criticism there is automatically denounced as anti-zionism, regardless of the critics actual opinion. This, combined the dominance of right-wing parties, and the rise of religious extremists in the country, is, in my opinion, leading Israel down the road of Fascism. Ironic, isn’t it?

So without further a due, here’s the main points of my argument: 

To set the record straight, I whole heartedly believe that Israel has the right to exist, and should live side by side with Palestine. What I don’t like is countries who abuse their power.

Israel can no longer play the victim. It has the most advance and strongest military in the Middle East, and is the only country there who has Nuclear weapons (you could mention Pakistan, when are they ever going to attack Israel). No other country would dare attack Israel, like during the 60s, because they know better. Yes, Hamas is out to destroy Israel, as are all Islamist extremists both inside Palestine, and outside. However, you have forgot the whole of point of why they are attack Israel in the first place. There was a reason Hamas won the 2006 elections, and it because Palestine’s are sick and tired of Israel ruining their lives. 

In its war to defend itself, Israel has bombed Gaza to pieces. The unemployment rate is 45% and four out of five people exist on UN food aid, all because of the blockade set up to stop rockets from getting into Gaza, which constantly fails thanks to the tunnels built between Gaza and Egypt. People there are desperate, which leads some of them to fight that they see as the reason for their suffering.

This is why they fire rockets at Israel, but in retaliation, Israel kills 10 Palestinians for every 1 Israeli killed, injures dozens more, and destroys everyone’s home in the process. This leads to more Palestinians becoming radicalised, who again attack Israel, so Israel retaliates, and it goes on and on, it just one big circle of violence and death.

This doesn’t even cover the root cause of this turmoil. The fact is that Hamas has so much support, is because Israel will not give back the land it took from Palestine during the 6 Day War. Every specialist at the UN agrees that Israel took this land illegally, and continues to build illegal settlements, the ones which are under attack, what is actually Palestine territory! However, everytime this brought up before the UN Security Council, the US vetoes any critism of Israel, and so, Israel continues abuses it’s power. Hell, when Palestine tried to apply for UN membership, the US pretty much blackmailed them, by threatening to cut off aid and Israel threaten to freeze its tax collection.

In the end, this isn’t about people or religion, it’s about land. Even Rabin understood this, and as Prime Minster, he oversaw the first real peace talks, by actually giving back back occupied land back Palestine. Yasser Arafat once sore to destroy Israel himself, but he changed his position because Rabin negotiated with him, and it can be do again.

Yes, Hamas is terrorist organisation, by completely ignoring them, peace will never happen. Israel needs to give back more land that it took from Palestine, or at least compensate them for the all that the Palestine has suffered. But still, under Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has refused to give anything back. Hell, they’ve even begun building even more settlements, despite international condemnation. This will only lead to more bloodshed, and despite Israeli’s insistence that it’s the victim in all this, it’s them who has to make the first move. 

That’s my opinion on the matter. I’m sorry again for how I acted at first, but this is where I stand.