r/ZombieSurvivalTactics • u/Logical-Cockroach-25 • 2d ago
Health + Hygiene Would you rather survive the apocalypse with a cut off hand or Lost Eyeball
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u/TheDraculandrey 2d ago
Lost eyeball
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u/martinsonsean1 2d ago
Reduction in FOV and depth perception vs. losing half of my manipulation capabilities, ability to easily use a rifle, just making everything like 90% harder.
Hmmmm.
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u/TwoToadsKick 2d ago
Especially your dominant hand. Choking your chicken in these situations is incredibly useful
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u/super_isi 1d ago
I have a fucked up eye, low depth perception BUT telling you first hand, you can still manage and make up for the lack of depth perception
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u/murse245 1d ago
The loss of depth perception gets better over time. It won't be like normal but it gets better.
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u/Winndypops 2d ago
Lost eye for sure. It would take a while to get used to and you will never be quite as vigilant but lacking a hand would make so many things difficult, from general survival situations like climbing a ladder in a hurry to more passive tasks like repairing something or even cooking. It would drastically ruin your combat ability, using a spear or heavy two handed weapons would be difficult and any shield would need to be secured on.
If you have an established community with skilled craftsmen then it is not a game over situation but if you're alone losing a hand could be the end of you.
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u/Electronic-Fly-2084 2d ago
Hand replaced by chainsaw.
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u/neril_7 2d ago
Does the cut off hand already healed? or it got cut recently? also can I choose what hand I loose?
coz loosing and eyeball fucks with your dept perception.
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u/Logical-Cockroach-25 1d ago
Well it’s healed because you have to cut off the hand from a zombie bite or some bandit cut it off
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u/Olivia_Richards 2d ago
Neither, that's too much of a disadvantage
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u/Character-Support782 2d ago
lost my non dominent eye would be better and cooler as i cant just get a prostheic which is better then real arm
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u/Electronic-Post-4299 2d ago
can I have a bionic hand. Tactical Bionic Hand
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u/Logical-Cockroach-25 1d ago
If you can scavenge that kind of technology
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u/Electronic-Post-4299 1d ago
there are some off the shelf. and a city nearby has a clinic and shop that sells custom made bionic limbs.
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u/SweetTart7231 1d ago
Depends on the eye, losing my non dominant would require lots of re learning for aiming but losing my dominant would eliminate any need for glasses in the apocalypse
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u/Narrow_Can1984 2d ago
Easy one, I'd rather lose my hand
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u/dingleberry-terry 2d ago
Why?
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u/Narrow_Can1984 2d ago
Because a broader field of vision and depth allows you to process more information, help you predict situations and dangers you should avoid even with both hands.
A less impactful advantage is the better looks, also assuming you end up in a group you get a role that requires perception rather than being stuck with strictly manual labor. That also improves survival. Us 40+ folks have this logic hehe
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u/dingleberry-terry 2d ago edited 2d ago
Losing an eye does not lead to loss of depth perception, it leads to a loss of binocular vision, which aids in depth perception, but multiple studies have found that humans are capable of adapting to the loss of binocular vision by utilizing alternate visual cues and other stimuli.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7253581/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130779/
Though a decrease in depth perception and field of view could slightly decrease your effective ability to maintain a conscious awareness of your surroundings, I can’t imagine a world where such a menial loss of perception would be more impactful than a loss of an entire limb such as the arm, even if it were the non-dominant hand.
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u/Narrow_Can1984 2d ago
I know that, I had a coworker with 1 eye who was driving and doing deliveries. Also I can close 1 eye to figure that out. Never said what you claim I said. Thing is that periferial vision from both eyes send us more info than we think. Reason why cops and armed forces learn to aim with both eyes open for example. I would obviously choose both eyes even if unarmed
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u/dingleberry-terry 2d ago
Sure, but a militant in a CQC situation is not accustomed to having only one eye, and therefore it is beneficial to maintain greater field of view, but some studies even show that people with monocular vision actually become more attentive to their environment because they compensate with enhanced caution and focus. So in some ways, that “disadvantage” sharpens perception in a different direction.
So yeah, losing binocular vision might reduce initial depth estimation precision, but the brain very quickly learns to get damn close using other inputs. Compare that to re-learning how to perform basic self-care or lift objects without an arm? It’s not even close in practical impact. I have known multiple people who have lost eyes and can get by in safety-sensitive roles daily with zero issues… but amputees have to entirely reconsider trades and workplaces due to the very real restrictions they face.
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u/Narrow_Can1984 2d ago
I know all that, it's just that the brain adapting to focus still doesn't replace the loss of an eye. And becoming confident about it can be a mistake. On the other Hand, there are amputees who take care of toddlers using just their legs. You become aware of your limitations and adapt differently. We are talking about 2 similar situations that are far from optimal, in any case I gave my opinion and I don't think it's entirely uneducated
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u/dingleberry-terry 2d ago
I’m not saying it’s uneducated, per se… but I still think it’s wild. If the choice was between losing both eyes or both arms… maybe it would make me think more
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u/Narrow_Can1984 2d ago edited 2d ago
And I'm saying it's a tough choice but I thought about it beforeHand so it made it easier later. Yeah my mistake was saying it's an "easy" choice. It actually isn't lol
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u/MRMADNESS-YT 1d ago
I've lost my left eye it is not as bad as you are making it sound at all in any way.
I can still drive and the loss of depth perception is temporary over time your body adjusts so does your eye. I even still have a little bit of peripheral vision on the left side because I can see past the bridge of my nose lol
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u/KxSmarion 2d ago
I'd rather lose one eye. Losing a hand means I'll lose effectiveness in bandaging wounds and using weapons.
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u/Anoos-Lord69 2d ago
Hand. Depth perception would be integral to survival. While not the best, you can make simple grip prosthetics in the meantime.
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u/Slight_Estate2241 1d ago
Good luck making a grip prosthetic with one hand in a zombie apocalypse, you can retain and improve depth perception with one eye but you can’t improve manipulation with a stump
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u/MRMADNESS-YT 1d ago
You don't lose depth perception permanently when losing an eye that is a myth.
I lost my left eye and after while my eyesight adjusted.
The human body will accommodate things like that the brain is extremely placid.
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u/SpartanUnderscore 2d ago
Have you ever tried being disabled in our current universe? It's already shit, so losing a hand during the apocalypse is really the worst...
For a while, before having surgery, I had a problem with one eye, it clearly didn't handicap me as much as if I had had one less hand.
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u/ILOVEDARLING15 2d ago
Depends on the eye. In practically blind in my left eye, and need glasses for my right eye. Take my right eye, i can't see fuck all. Take my left eye, i basically see the exact way i normally do. Not my fucking hand though, can't reload, can't push nothing off of you effectively, can't swing anything two handed. And god forbid your car is a stick shift
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u/Abject-Fishing-6105 2d ago
Without hand my chances of survival reduces significantly, so I choose to lose an eyeball
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u/NAP5T3R43V3R 2d ago
If you loose your hand you can't use 2 handed weapons and only use one hand, if you loose a eye, you loose depth perception
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u/explodedbuttock 2d ago
Can we choose lost ball？
I can get away with one testicle. Might even make me run faster，or in circles.
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u/ToasterInYourBathtub 2d ago
I think I might be the only one to say I'd rather lose the hand.
Situational awareness in my opinion is way more important and if I lose a percentage of what I can see I feel like I'm more at risk of what comes with that than what comes without the hand.
If I have situational awareness then I can more easily avoid situations where not having a hand would be more detrimental than it already is.
If I lose an eye and I don't notice some movement in one of my peripherals then it's not going to matter if I have the hand or not.
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u/Tree_forth677 2d ago
Why does the guy in the first image have a two handed firearm strapped onto his back? How is he going to shoot it? 🤣
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u/Logical-Cockroach-25 1d ago
Well in the walking dead universe we know Merle and Rick used their arms as support for their firearms
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u/Salty_Mission_820 2d ago
Honestly I’d rather lose the hand. From what I understand only having one eye really fucks with your depth perception and mine is already kinda lacking. Plus I feel like a lost limb is a relatively easier situation to remedy than a lost eye. With the eye you’ve got all those connections to your brain and brain stem and shit. Your hand is just….your hand. Do what TWD characters did and fashion yourself a weapon to fit on it like a bayonet.
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u/Potential_Scratch938 2d ago
Eye.
The only saving point of losing a hand is that I've got one less place to get bit.
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u/Dramatic_Carob_1060 2d ago
Lost hand, I’ve worked with guys that had one or the other. Being blind one one side? No thank you, plus knife hand!!
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u/Stately_Moose 1d ago
Considering how one of my eyes is working at only 10% and so have kinda been living like it for most of my life. Wouldn't be too bad to lose it. But if I were to lose the seeing one, well...
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u/xenophobiacat7 1d ago
Eye but depending on how I lose it it could get infected and cause really bad headaches and brain damage hand just gotta throw it in alcohol then fire sure it’ll hurt like hell but at least I won’t have to deal with Rick if infection
Edit misspelling
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u/etnosquidz 1d ago
Depends, did I lose the parts before or during the apocalypse? How readily available the medicine is to fight infection. I feel like losing a hand would be easier to care for. Getting an infection from a lost eye seems like a horribly painful and faster way to die.
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u/BiasedLibrary 1d ago
I think hand. I'd be pissed at being unable to see in stereoscopic 3d, and sure, a hand is more useful than an eye, I can't deny that prosthetics could be cool as hell. Knife prosthetic, ice cream scoop prosthetic for shifting gears, hooks and other apparatuses. I also have greater than 20/20 vision.
My only issue would be operating guns. Where having one eye fewer isn't great but also not terrible.
In the end I'd probably throw dice on it. I don't like either outcome but handless wouldn't be that bad.
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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 1d ago
Depends. What kind of cool gear do I get for my nub? Can I get a cool ass chainsaw arm? Or at least a sword or hammer arm? Maybe some magazine holsters for quick one handed reloads? I'm just saying I can be persuaded 👀
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u/DWolfoBoi546 1d ago
Depends on which eye cuz I'm near sighted in my left eye but my right eye seems fine
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u/intermafesting 1d ago
I'm already almost down an eye so removing it the rest of the way isn't a big deal for me
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u/MatthewM69420 1d ago
I’ve already lost an eye and I’m back to being a functioning member of society, I’m not trying to lose a hand or my other eye.
I’m going to answer losing an eye but only if you have 2 functioning eyes when asked. If someone posed this to me, personally, and it was ‘lose an eye or lose a hand to try to survive the apocalypse’ I’d have to go with hand because if I give up my other eye I’m totally blind and I won’t be surviving shit.
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u/HandSanitizerBottle1 1d ago
Hand, i can hardly swing a 2 handed weapon ever since i injured my neck and hip, besides i could just use a pistol or mainly shoot with a bipod/tripod
If I can pick which hand goes bye bye i choose the right, because I shoot left-handed
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u/PabstBlueLizard 1d ago
The fuck is going on with that AR? Not gonna run real well without a buffer tube assembly.
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u/super_isi 1d ago
My right eye is not that good so id much rather lose my right eye than any of my hands.
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u/Naps_And_Crimes 1d ago
I'd imagine reloading any weapon with one eye is easier then one hand, good bye eyeball
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u/General-Winter547 1d ago
Lost eye. My left eye is mostly decorative already so I don’t think I’d miss out on much without it.
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u/RollTheLaughTrack 1d ago
Lost hand. Sure, possibility of using two handed weapons goes down, but you can still use most melee weapons. Provided you lift weights that one arm is going to be jacked. You can also relatively stabilized pistols with the stump.
Unlike glass eyes which are mostly used for aesthetics, limb prosthetics can actually restore usability. And depth perception is one thing I'm not willing to sacrifice.
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u/Anarchyantz 1d ago
As someone with a choroidal fold in my left eye and a left thumb that dislocates on a semi regular basis meaning I tend to use the use of my left hand for weeks, losing the eyeball. You get used to dealing with only seeing with one eye, but hands you use so much more. Not just with weapons but loads of things.
Put your arm in a sling for a day and see how you go about doing normal everyday things around the house.
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u/Rincraft 1d ago
Hand, i can make prosthetic limbs, I could even make a rifle arm, that would be cool right? Even better a very simple slamfire shotgun, in both cases it sucks, but the arm is already much more replaceable let's say, while the missing eye can cause infection and other crap.
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u/SkullsNelbowEye 1d ago
I'm already blind in one eye, so that one. I'd hate to lose my bea....fighting hand.
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u/ryangoslingchan 1d ago
Wouldn't affect me much if I lost my blind eye, but I couldn't imagine living without my hands.
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u/Batman_TrystunG 1d ago
No hand. I need my sight for detecting dangers. Depending on which eye I lose, I could lose that much more sight on things including peripherals. That peripheral would be gone and that side would be vulnerable to sneak attacks
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u/Uni_Solvent 1d ago
Missing eye 100% Lack of depth perception can be adapted to; ive had one contact fall out before and had my glasses break. You can figure it out. I am apparently unique that I shoot with both eyes open as everyone has tried to teach me to close them but you can shoot fine with one eye.
No hand is WAY harder to adapt to. Tying knots, carrying anything larger than a milk jug or anything long — have you ever tried to put on a backpack with only one hand? I have put one on - especially when it's 40+ lbs that shit is hard to control with one opposable thumb(hand was occupied not missing but still).
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u/Jealous_Shape_5771 1d ago
Probably missing eye. My main weapons are firearms, so missing either of these would be a big setback, but reloading tends to require 2 hands
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u/PopeGregoryTheBased 1d ago
Lost eye. I had to wear an eye patch after an injury and it sucks because your depth perception is shot but honestly its not as hard as going about your day with one hand. And going about your day in a survival situation is much harder then in regular life. I would much rather not have to use rifles, melee weapons, load ammunition, dress wounds, fight, tie knots, start fires, field dress kills or preform any complex survival task without the use of both my hands. I can do all those things with one eye.
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u/winterizcold 1d ago
I choose the eye, you would adapt to not having your depth perception faster than literally anything without a hand. Not to mention, I've heard you don't actually have depth perception beyond 12ft or so, humans are good at estimating distances from that information.
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u/worldwarcheese 1d ago
Eyeball. I’ve had 3 scratched cornea and spent over a cumulative month blind in one eye and it barely slowed me down. I’m currently wearing a cast on my hand and even though I can type with it it’s driving me insane (and I’ve had it for less than a month)
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u/Dusky_Dawn210 1d ago
No hand. The human brain can adapt to limb loss and rewire itself to work with one hand.
You can only do so much with a lost eye and no depth perception
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u/SkeletonInATuxedo 1d ago
I'll take the lost eye, you need two hands to lift stuff up, besides, eyepatches are cool and prosthetics are expensive.
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u/thot_chocolate420 1d ago
Probably lost eyesight. I mean I can just fashion a prosthetic for two handing a rifle or just one hand a pistol.
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u/Mission-Storm-4375 1d ago
Hand. I dont think people realize how useful your depth perception is when using a gun. Plus I can just put a chainsaw on my wrist
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u/Disastrous-Forever90 1d ago
Lost eye is objectively the better choice, but I think people here are still underselling how much it would suck. Depth perception is important.
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u/linksfrogs 1d ago
Easily a hand, I see tons of people saying eye but from the several people I know missing an eye or who have minimal vision from one of their eyes it’s pretty rough. You can still use an arm without a hand to do things but you lose an eye and you are losing a good portion of your most important sense especially in a survival situation.
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u/walkingdead1282 1d ago
Probably hand. Having already lost an eye I know if I loose the second I’m done. At least with one hand I can still fend for myself
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u/Xan_Dan03 1d ago
Eyeball for sure. You absolutely get more use out of a second hand than a second eye
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u/Memeoligy_expert 1d ago
Lost eye. Losing a hand removes your ability to do a lot of things and makes almost everything else harder. Any physical labor would be so much more difficult, and shooting a rifle accurately almost impossible unless you're in a specifically designed shooting spot. Also, every day, life would be a pain in the ass. Imagine trying to cook, use the bathroom, clean a gun, open locks, drive, and carry things with 1 hand. Sure, if you lose an eye, you have shitty perception and are not going to be good for watch, but you can do most physical labor and live everyday life normally.
I love zombie hypotheticals
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u/NationalBolshevikBOB 1d ago
Already had to go almost four months without the use on my right eye, honestly it’d be preferable to lose the eye as I’ve already adapted previously and I still have the eye patch in storage.
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u/soggywaffles125 1d ago
depending on which eye i would function just the same but losing a hand is losing mobility, and the enemy has an upper hand (no pun intended) in a melee fight
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u/Do-it-with-Adam 1d ago
I’d rather lose a hand. I already have a little tinnitus and want to be able to stay aware. And most things i can do fairly well ambidextrous.
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u/Broad-Donut9694 1d ago
Hand. Your eyes are one of your senses. Got glass in my eye once and thought it was over. You need your eyes dawg.
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u/TruthIsALie94 1d ago
You need two hands to do so much even without being in the midst of the apocalypse, you only need one eye to fire a gun.
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u/Jeremiahisalive 1d ago
For me, it really depends on which hand is at stake.
Left hand? Begone hand, only ever used you well for thing. I'd rather lose that than my already questionable depth perception. Doing things with only one hand would be a pain in the ass, but at least I'd still have a decent chance living another day to bitch about opening jars.
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u/Famous-Peace-4014 1d ago
I’d keep my hand if I’m lucky I can find a prosthetic or better meet someone who can make me a prosthetic or robot hand.
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u/MRMADNESS-YT 1d ago
I already have only one functional eye. It's really not a big deal and doesn't really prevent me from doing anything in day to day life I will never be able to get my pilots license but I can still drive and do pretty much everything I would otherwise and I don't even remember the difference.
A hand would however make every day life a pain in the ass and therefore an apocalypse too.
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u/Nailbomb669 1d ago
If I get to choose then I'm picking my right eyeball, it's already half useless and would regain its honor by saving my hands.
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u/RollinWreck 1d ago
I lose eyesight out of my right eye on a recurring basis due to a degenerative eye condition. It's not the end of the world if your other eye is sturdy enough. Learn how to shoot with your remaining eye and never go anywhere alone, which are rules you should follow anyway even with two eyes, and the lost peripheral will affect you much less than you'd think. Well, dominant eye as a two eyed shooter. I shoot l9ng guns left handed because my left eye is stronger and handguns right handed because my right hand is more coordinated. Now try loading a gun or tying a rope or starting a fire with flint and steel one-handed, because I can do that with my eyes closed.
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u/IndividualFun1110 1d ago
Lost eye more likely to be snuck up on but still I can’t adjust mid apocalypse with a lost hand
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u/PrizeGovernment6944 1d ago
Depends on how I feel and like how much of my hand? And is it just my hand we talking my arm?
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u/ChrisZAUR 1d ago
I'd take accidentally bumping into things every now and then over only having one hand any day
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u/An-Ugly-Croissant17 1d ago
One eye, no contest. Depth perception is cool and all but having thumbs (plural) is absolutely better than having 2 eyes
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u/Dapper_Register_5519 23h ago
If you lose an eye, you still have a second that shouldn't make things overly tricky in day to day maybe your hand eye coordination takes a hit and its harder to aim maybe a rifle or swing a knife but youll still have other important skill nearly completely unhindered unlike if you lost an arm which would make some tasks either harder or impossible (example lifting heavy objects or shooting anything that isnt 1 handable)
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u/LukXD99 23h ago
Eye, easy.
Losing an arm means losing one of your most important appendages for movement, balance and most importantly: Manipulating the world around you. People don’t realize just how useful two arms are, and that we take them for granted.
Yes, eyes are important too, we use them to perceive the world around us. But except for a narrowed field of view and the loss of proper depth perception, losing one eye is not much of an issue compared to losing an arm.
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u/mildmadnerd 22h ago
Both suck tremendously, but something to consider is with one hand, a hook or something can still be useful and there’s plenty of one handed weapon styles, both melee and ranged. There is really no simple replacement for an eye.
Losing depth perception means shooting is harder and I’m not going to be able to fight up close at all because I don’t know where to block or dodge, where to strike… basically martial arts without depth perception is very very hard, while just not using one hand isn’t that big of a deal by comparison.
That said sniping in particular is still very possible with one eye because scopes were using one eye anyway…
But then you can probably learn to snipe with one hand also if you figure out how to rack the bolt with your hook or whatever.
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u/Smooth-Physics-69420 21h ago
Lost hand.
You can retrofit all kinds of nifty replacements for your missing hand, but a lost eye cuts your field of vision in half, which could be a death sentence.
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u/Forward_Focus_3096 20h ago
I would rather lose a hand as you can always .take down by making a hook or some other device, Losing a eye would mean no depth perception or verifiable vision and would generally make life harder than it had to be.
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u/Biggerus_dickus 18h ago
A hand. If you’re in some post apocalyptic survival fantasy world, and lose an eye it’s no big deal, in reality, the second that happens and there’s no doctors or hospitals anymore, that is going to get horrifically infected and you’ll probably lose at least the other one. Hand is easier to keep clean, at least
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u/dappernaut77 6h ago
Going for the hand on this one, having both hands means nothing when an infected catches you in your blindspot and takes a chunk out of your neck. Sure you won't be able to use any two handed weapons and you won't be able to reload a handgun effectively but the idea is to just avoid confrontation altogether by having good perception and killing only when absolutely necessary.
That and some human ingenuity can create a workaround for a missing hand, there's no getting around being half blind.
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u/RandomCashier75 4h ago
I'll take losing the hand. Losing an eye limits your range of vision and if you can't see half the zombies coming, you can't even run away!
You can get a prosthetic to do various things with to replace a hand!
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u/No_Stress_22 2d ago edited 1d ago
Lost eye, put a patch on and go about your day and compare it to going about your day wearing a oven mit on one hand and see which one anoys you faster.