Zombie Apocalypse vs. Alien Apocalypse
 

So i was talking to my friend the other day and somehow we got into a conversation as to what apocalypse we would prefer if it was going to happen and we were given the choice between Aliens and Zombies. She said Alien and i said Zombie.

Here are my reasons why i chose Zombie:

1. You can kill Zombie's easier
2. Aliens are highly intelligent and have advanced weaponry and spacecrafts. Zombies are dead people who shuffle around and sometimes run. This kinda goes with Zombies are easier to kill but it also adds to the fact that we wouldnt be wiped out as quickly.
3. You can barricade yourself somewhere to fight off the zombies. Aliens are smart and can blow the doors down or find some way in.
4. Zombies are limited. We know that they are just dead people/infected people come back to life to kill us but there are millions of possible variations of Aliens out there. Who knows what we would get. We could be fighting giant bugs, aliens that look like humans, little gray men..etc. With that kind of selection, it would be harder to create a plan of survival.

Now there are her reasons for an Alien invasion:
1. If attacked by an alien, there is a chance that you can survive the attack and still live. A Zombie only needs to bite you once and you're screwed.
2. She likes aliens better.

I swear to god those were her only reasons. So what does everyone else think?

I totally agree with you.

Basically, I can make a 20 - 50 page essay as to why the zombie apocalypse would be better, but the most basic argument would be that a zombie apocalypse - all creepiness of the following statement ignored - would be more fun.

I agree with that statement, creepiness be damned. Getting blown up by aliens wouldn't be any fun. Fighting Zombies could be though despite the fact that they used to be humans.

I just remembered another one my friend said. She brought up that with a zombie apocalypse you might have to kill a loved one who has been turned. I countered that by saying that aliens might be able to disguise themselves as your friends and family and might even be able to turn them into slaves or aliens themselves.

Agreed. Plus there's the common thing in things like literature about you being able to kill an infected friend or family member - it's more of an act of relieving them from something hellish (an act of love in many ways) than anything else.

That sounds much better in many ways than killing (or at least attacking) someone who looks exactly like your friend or family member.

Although when someone becomes a Zombie are they trapped in their bodies experiencing themselves spinning out of control and becoming a monster or is it something more? When you become a zombie do you die and your soul departs leaving your body with a life of its own? If thats the case, you're not really putting your loved one out of their misery because they already are. What you are now fighting is just their empty shell.

But if that is the case, then killing them shouldnt be hard because its not them, just a husk of what they used to be. Still shooting someone you care about and watching their blood and brains spill out and knowing that you caused that has got to be difficult and its something i'm not sure i could do.

like everybody else said zombie's are more easy to kill, but what sort of zombies are we talking about.you have the ones that move slow they are def easy to run away from,then u have the fast running ones they are def more scary.but i am def for zombie apocalypse.

I think you just need to think about how we treat apes, because for an alien species to reach us from afar, the relative intelligence difference would be similar. We respect them and see them as smart, but we still dominate them, control them without any consent. I assume that is how an alien race would treat us, even if benevolent. We have no problem upturning an ape ecosystem if it's for our own progression and benefit - if they wanted resources and ran their ships from, say, tarmac (random, I know), they would probably have no qualms destroying all of our roads and paved areas.

So are you saying you'd rather fight Aliens because there's a chance for our survival as long as the aliens dominate us and treat us like a lower species like how we treat apes?

That makes sense but given that choice i think i'd rather be wiped out then demoralized and controlled.