Okay, I often post ethical dilemmas, that I discover during writing The Zombie Novel, up on here. Just to see what everyone else says about it and what they think the right answer is, if there IS even a right answer. Okay, here’s the latest one.
The zombie apocalypse happened. There’s a vaccine to stop people turning if they ever are bitten by a zombie, but it can’t do anything for people who’ve already turned all the way. Society’s reformed itself and naturally there’s an underclass – the already bitten. And now, they’ve been experimented on, in the most horrific ways imaginable, to find a proper working cure for zombieism. It works. Most of its subjects remain brain-damaged, but it works in the sense that most of its subjects can no longer pass on the infection and, well, no longer want to devour human flesh.
Our heroes find the cure in a hidden torture chamber/science lab. The people who created it in such a horrific manner are dying or have fled. Various failed-experiment mutants and twisted corpses are all around. (Ever played Fallout 3? Think the Vault 87 bit.) But there’s the cure. It will work to save *society*, even if it can’t do that much for the individual. Thousands of people were taken against their will and abused and tortured and murdered to create it.
So is it your moral responsibility to take it and start using it, or to burn all samples of it and the entire lab to the ground?