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

2) What’s Right Isn’t Always What’s Easy

If we’re being honest, doing what’s right, even now, isn’t exactly easy. If it was, we would haven’t criminals, because, they could just do the right thing, and get by on doing that. Sadly, the reality is that doing what’s right can be tough, very tough, and that often causes people to falter.

That becomes even easier in a zombie apocalypse, as all too often, the things that are easy may also appear to be the most pragmatic.

For this, I’m actually going to pivot away from John, and look to our old friend Victor Strand for my example. During this week’s episode of Fear, Strand actually warned Virginia to move Janis’s execution forward. On its face, this is terrible: He ensured Janis would die, when John could have saved her.

However, if we look at this from Strand’s perspective…he did this to save John.

Strand (And, lest we forget, Janis) knew that, if Janis escaped, John would have been the one to face the brunt of the punishment, at best, like being permanently separated from June, and, even with that, with Janis not knowing where Morgan is, Virginia likely would have caught her eventually and executed her, anyway. This is the reason why Janis confessed in the first place. For Strand, he knew he couldn’t save both of his friends, so, he opted to save the one who he knew still had people to live for.

John might have punched Strand in the face for it, but, I think the way Strand saw it, he’d rather have his friend angry at him, but alive, than happy with him, but dead.

It’s like I said: What’s right isn’t always what’s easy. In fact, it rarely is.