Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Doing what’s right

1) “Doing The Right Thing”

“Doing The Right Thing” is something of a nebulous term: What’s “right” really depends on the person you’re asking and when you’re asking them.

You see, what’s “right” before a zombie apocalypse starts and what’s “right” after aren’t always the same things. For example: Hotwiring cars under normal circumstances is bad, but, in a zombie apocalypse, doing so might be your only means of getting a vehicle that can get you away from a herd of zombies, so, in that case, you don’t have a choice.

That said, there are still some universal truths that don’t change just because the dead are marching around eating people, and you should strive to uphold these whenever possible.

For John in this week’s episode of Fear The Walking Dead, it was doing his job, i.e. finding out the truth of how Cameron wound up tangled in a barbed wire fence, being chewed on walkers.

It also meant doing everything he possibly could to ensure that Janis, a friend whom he knew to be innocent, wasn’t killed for a crime she didn’t commit, even if that meant sacrificing his own comfort to do it.

In a zombie apocalypse, you need to stay true to who you are and do what you know deep down to be right. When there’s no law and order anymore, we have to be the ones to keep ourselves honest.