with movies like i am legend and 28weeks later, what is the possibility that a virus or any microbe or any other type of matter can actually cause a human to lose all rationality and become beast like and attack and kill like in the movie??
hehe or am i being juz ultra paranoid just after watchin i am legend lol
2007-12-24 22:02:19 · 10 answers · asked by acnemycin 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
By habit many of them already are.
2007-12-28 13:51:11 · answer #1 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that was a very good point Labsci made. I myself after watching I am legend laughed at how stupid it looked that people with rabies, having no rational thought could socially interact and get along within themselves, but tear everything else apart. what was even more irrational is that even the dogs that the infected people had would only turn against normal people and dogs. so dont let movies get to you
2007-12-25 07:08:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are viral and bacterial diseases which cause swelling of the brain, lesions, etc. Leading to psychotic episodes, seizures, mood and personality changes. However, everyone will be affected differently. There is no disease or drug which can cause you to become psychotic, cannibalistic and violent, while retaining enough social ability to group together with other people affected in the same way.
This would be contradictory, and highly unlikely.
There would be psychotic violence within such a group such that it could not form any level of organisation.
2007-12-25 06:18:15 · answer #3 · answered by Labsci 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually yes, have you ever heard of rabies?
The rabies virus attacks the central nervous system and the person infected gradually slides into insanity as the brain deteriorates. It makes humans just as violent and beastly as it does the animals it infects, i.e. dogs and cats.
Fortunately, it is very rare amongst humans, with only a few thousand cases reported annually worldwide.
2007-12-25 06:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Jiraiya™ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we are beasts.
when i watch zombie-esque movies i tend to think these movies are more social commentary than scientifical. BUT if you really want to get into the possibility of "social breakdown" as a result of parasitic organisms, well there are many creepy-crawly things that can infect us and alter our behaviors: for a mild example (argueably) toxoplasmosis gondii infected crazy cat people...
furthermore, in the book Robert Neville is the "bad guy"
2007-12-25 14:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by Extra Ordinary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u know there so many movies about aliens although we don't have a direct evidence so far. so this is also just an idea, nothing else
2007-12-25 10:03:47 · answer #6 · answered by Ahmed Zia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
movies can have a bad influence on how people think
2007-12-25 06:09:45 · answer #7 · answered by Hank W 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm very doubtful that this could happen thank goodness LOL
2007-12-25 06:10:24 · answer #8 · answered by bruce c 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'M sorry.....
Ms.Baker.....
No comments at this time.....
Everything will be used against you...in and of a court'a law.
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Who cares?
We "humans" are just another parasite on the face of the plannet.
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Nuclear wepons pointed directly at ourselves.....
No wonder, all the good looking people never, "live to see" an , ripe ol' age.
2007-12-25 06:28:36 · answer #9 · answered by "Not today, Zurg!" 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY...NO VIRUS NEEDED ...THE PRISONS ARE FULL OF SUCH PEOPLE
2007-12-25 06:11:09 · answer #10 · answered by cochise 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋