Talk:Kouichi Sakakibara/@comment-397235-20140820020502/@comment-397235-20140821000320

No, Peter is not intelligent at all, he's just charismatic. I firmly belief, if the cast of Dawn is all humanity will have left after the zombie apocalypse, we might be better off with the dead running things.

Mostly this is just me taking cheap shots at two of my least favorite writers, but I do have a point to make. When tragedy strikes my region, we band together, we don't stand alone and tear each other apart. I've seen this first hand, when tornadoes ravaged my old hometown, killing my grandmother and several people I grew up with (the casualties were so high because a high school graduation had just ended and a lot of people were on the road; had I still lived there I'd have been among them and probably wouldn't be having this conversation right now).

People in my region did not loot, we did not steal, we did not become violent, and we didn't blame the President for not caring because our region is politically opposed to his and our skin is a different color (most of us were smart enough recognize his direct presence was even less than necessary, and didn't care he didn't immediately fly over; it wouldn't have done anything more than make the relief efforts a circus, which we didn't need). We sucked it up and got things put back together.

While it may be true for New England and Philadelphia (where all of Romero's films take place, even when it's geographically infeasible, such as Resident Evil which is implicitly set in the Midwest) that when push comes to shove people will eat each other alive, not everyone's so ugly.