gcj post making fun of this man
Americans have a deep-seated deranged longing to be in a situation where absolute brutality can be hypothetically justified. Self-defense violence fantasies continue to be unhinged. There’s a shitload of supportive comments in the AMA too.
Specifically they are the subconscious fear of the property owner and small business owner. There’s a reason why the protagonist humans are always camped out at a location (mall, prison, farm, house, etc) and the zombies are always breaking in, breaking down the fences. We have to shoot these mindless non-humans, they are breaking into my property!!
A lot of survivalist/libertarian mindset as well, with the entire premise of everyone turning on each other once things get difficult instead of banding together - and the prepper instinct.
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Well Zombies are an inversion of the old horror archetypes of Dracula and aristocratic vampires. Used to be that what scared most people was the blood sucking old money capitalist in the manor on the hill, who follows strange arcane rules and has the ability to slaughter and exploit mortals. Most people were workers or peasants.
Now most people in the US are middle-class consumers completely absorbed into the cult of individuality. They see themselves as Dracula. They see the workers and peasants of the world as mindless and stupid livestock to exploit and slaughter. Their inside subconscious source of perspective and identity has swapped from one of the lowly masses terrorized by a powerful monster, to a powerful monster who terrorizes the lowly masses. Hence the glee you see when people discuss what they would do during a hypothetical zombie apocalypse and it's pop-culture power. No peasant or worker would have felt glee at the idea of a real life vampire apocalypse.