- Give up on religion, and eventually even the zealots would give up too because there would no sense of “God’s plan” or hope in the zombies
- We wouldn’t see the zombies as human at all; they have no soul and are only corpses. On the other hand, if someone you care about turns into a zombie and is killed it still makes sense to maintain some sense of respect for them and have a burial or funeral if possible. We don’t believe in letting loved ones live as zombies in the hopes that they’re still themselves.
- It’s difficult to know whether or not to trust other living people. Everyone would become hyper-individual and selfish in trying to survive. We think you should have a small, close group that you trust and are trying to protect. Where it gets tricky is when you encounter other people or groups. If you’ve had enough bad experiences you might not be willing to trust them, but 2 years into the zombie apocalypse it might be time for the living to start banding together – but how do you know who to trust and how do you give people chances without putting your own group in danger?
- At this point if you have to kill someone who isn’t a zombie to keep yourself safe then society’s old rules no longer apply. However, there should still be sufficient reason i.e. self-defense. If you need supplies or shelter it would be better to try to band together than to kill everyone (looking at you Governor).
Seems like a reasonable citizen outlook to me... all except for one thing: funerals. Really? Seems totally contradictory with everything else you've laid out (which includes killing other non-zombies if you can supply a reason for doing so and giving up on seemingly any faith in any sort of deity whatsoever). Burials I can see - maybe; depending on what kind of (un)dead you're dealing with, i.e. if you're uncertain the thing you just killed us going to get back up and try to eat you, burying it in the earth doesn't seem like such a bad idea. On the other hand, burying people in real life is way harder than it looks on TV, and takes a significant amount of time and energy (depending on what kind of dirt you're digging). Moreover, coming from a body of citizens who claim to see zombies purely for what they are, totally void of any kind of humanity or soul, it seems sort of contradictory that you'd be looking to symbolically commemorate your fallen family and comrades through something like funeral or burial rituals. I'd say based on everything else you have outlined above, you drag 'em well outside the community boundaries, hack 'em up, and leave them there to rot.
I am also part of a citizen group. While reading through the posts we all mentioned religion. I think it's interesting how when we think of a belief system, religion is automatically the first thing that comes to mind. I'm wondering where you would stand on raising children. My group talked about whether we would try to teach them morality more or survival skills. For the most part I agree with everything you said. I understand the idea of having funerals or burials as well. When you lose someone you love it is a way to shut the book and move on. It may not be a symbol of the people achieving peace or whatever, but it is a way for the living to move on.