“It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the
equal treatment of unequals.”
~ Felix Frankfurter
True or not true, I make the observation that we would never consider treating zombies as our equals. We would never read them their Miranda rights.
We’re pretty comfortable with our decisions at the extremes. It’s when we get nearer the mean that this proposition becomes tricky. Just to pick a random example: We let 15 year old girls get pregnant and then many of us attempt to be supportive. We coo over their babies just as we coo over the babies of responsible, married middle school teachers who carefully pick the time when they intend to deliver.
Small wonder these youthful zombie mamas keep having babies. We shower them with help and attention as a reward for their indiscretions. Then when the babies aren’t babies anymore we leave them to shuffle about in search of brains — or at least a few quiet moments to rest.
