I wouldn't rape anyone either but it would be me and my son against everyone else and I would do what I had to. I wouldn't just kill random people.

I think it would be much more like 'The Road' where food is very scarce, especially after time and people will kill for a tin of beans.

I think we all would be surprised by what we would, in fact, do to stay alive a few months into a survival situation. Few people are capable of imagining themselves in such a situation due to the fact that, frankly, how many of us have gone a week without food? How often has your life been put at jeopardy from sepsis in a simple cut on your finger, but you had no anti-biotics? More importantly, how many times have you been held at gunpoint by another "survivor" who promptly took your last box of spaghetti that you found in an abandoned house? Mace is getting a little closer to reality by admitting that he might have to take a few nasty steps, but you say you wouldn't "randomly" kill folks? I dare say that everyone here is not only capable of doing so, but would become fairly handy at accomplishing said deed. Maybe you wouldn't go out "hunting" folks, but if you saw an armed guy with a backpack full of something walking toward your hiding spot, and you'd been attacked/held at gunpoint several times, would you shoot him?

This is an element that I absolutely love about DayZ. I've found that I am about 70/30 split on what to do when I see another survivor. 30% of the time I am convinced enough that they're friendly to exchange bullets for food/water and to work together. 70% of the time I will kill them, because frankly you just never know. Anyone who claims that such a mentality isn't "role-playing" needs to garner a wider perspective on human nature, or wait for a single-player mod.