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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's been mentioned several times that Joel and Tommy had done "awful" things to people in the past - but didn't *everyone* do awful things in order to survive?  It seems like if you didn't do what you had to, you'd wind up either under someone else's control or dead.  I guess I don't really consider killing bad people to be doing anything particularly awful.  Or maybe one of you has more detail that I don't know anything about?[/quote]

I agree that trying to put traditional morality onto apocalypse life is really difficult. I think where we typically draw the line is terrible things being done reactively or proactively. IE, faking an injury to get a car to stop and then doing something terrible to those people who were just traveling is different from killing people who tricked you into stopping and tried to rob you.

And clearly Joel has done some proactive bad things. But I do agree it is not always so cut and dry. Are you faking the injury to get the car because you're starving? It does not seem like Joel, to me, has done bad things because he ENJOYS doing bad things, but because he wanted to protect/provide for people he deemed important. So he is kind of a grey area, which makes sense. I think the idea that Tommy would be comfortable with the opinion his wife shows of Joel is less believable though.

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