Echonian

Well, this thread has been interesting to read. I see claims that human beings would devolve into psychopaths immediately. While it is true that society would be more brutal after something such as a zombie apocalypse, this would almost certainly be caused by poor attempts at rebuilding civilization (dictatorships would be on the rise, as people would be willing to risk terror for a chance of safety). As to the overall idea that killing others would give you an advantage (with ill-informed evolutionary references) over others, that really doesn't apply as well as some people seem to think. While I doubt killing others would be an enormous difficulty for certain insane individuals, doing so would actually decrease their chances of surviving in the long term. They would be very unlikely to form a group, even with those who think like them, as anybody with a shoot-on-sight mentality is going to shoot someone who they think is threatening long before trying to do a team up. People more willing to work together would have an advantage by being able to split up roles in survival, which is how human society functions at its most basic level already. "Bandits" would exist, as there are plenty of people who are ignorant and psychotic enough to kill other people if something like this happened. Fortunately for modern society, they are a very small minority of the population. Bottom line is that groups would have an advantage in surviving by splitting up their duties for things they specialize in. A group that trusts one another would have a distinct advantage when put up evenly against a group that does not, and would vastly outnumber groups of killers for the simple reason that such groups would implode much more readily. This is without even considering human nature, which is a mixed bag. Can't believe I wasted time reading this or even posting this. I feel as if I'm responding to either trolls, or individuals who do not have the faintest idea how society or human nature behave on a large scale. Especially when said individuals point to LARGE SCALE government atrocities or tiny-scale murder sprees as their evidence for everyone becoming trigger happy (despite those still being a very small minority in the world a whole).