The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Truth shall set you free
By Liam O'Leary
1) Lying to other people doesn’t help.
As a little kid, I learned that it’s always best to be honest when you screw things up because, if you lie and get found out later, it’s always worse; Well, in a zombie apocalypse, that still holds true.
We saw Princess leave out a couple of very important details as she took Eugene, Yumiko, and Ezekiel to get some bicycles, namely, that A) She was taking them through a literal minefield, and B) She…didn’t need to take them through it in the first place.
This decision was a terrible idea. She wound up marching the team through the minefield, risking getting them all blown to smithereens in the process, and then, nearly getting an arrow in the face from an angry Yumiko once she found out about the whole thing. One lie nearly got Princess killed twice over.
You see, people need to know certain things in a zombie apocalypse, things like, oh, I don’t know, whether or not there are deathtraps on the ground they’re walking on! Stuff like that’s kind of vital.
Of course, there’s another problem that comes from when you lie about important things like that, specifically, that the people you lied to…don’t trust you!
It should come as no surprise, of course, that people will not trust you if you lie to them, but, with trust being so precious and important to a functioning group in the apocalypse, if you do something to lose that trust, you created a huge problem for yourself that’s extremely difficult to fix! I mean, do you think someone’s going to risk their neck for someone they don’t trust?
Honesty really is the best policy.