The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Your choices make you

4) The choices you make affect other people.

Honestly, this is true whether you’re in a zombie apocalypse or not, but, it’s especially true if you are in one, because the situation is just so deadly; Your actions, depending on what they are, can affect someone miles away from you, maybe even hundreds of miles away from you.

Let’s stick with my zombie-infested building example from earlier. If you chose not to think carefully about entering the building, and just strolled in, you could easily run into a couple dozen zombies who’ve just been lingering there since they turned.

Sure, you might escape from them, but, now, those zombies will be roaming loose, following the general direction they last saw you in. The movement and noise of those zombies could draw other zombies to them, who, in turn, draw more to them, and so on and so forth, until the herd numbers in the thousands. Woe betide to any poor sap who happens to be in the path of that herd as they march, because they will be swarmed and stripped to the bone like a wounded fish caught by piranhas.

You see, all it takes is one bad decision by one person, to affect countless lives who were never even aware of the existence of the person who made it, so, make sure the decisions you do make are not stupid ones.