FearTWD, Survival Rule Of The Week: The devil you don’t know

1) As Bad As Some People Can Be, There’s Always Someone WORSE

I feel like I see people complain fairly frequently about this person, that person, this group of people, that group of people, and so on and so forth into infinity. More times than not, I see these complaints and think to myself: “Don’t they realize that this OTHER PERSON or this OTHER GROUP is FAR WORSE than the ones they’re complaining about?”

If you look through history, you can see instances where, while some group or country was bad, those who came in their wake were infinitely worse. Take Russia, for example: While the czar was awful, he paled in comparison to the mass death and destruction wrought by the communists who replaced him.

Sadly, this phenomenon won’t disappear once the zombie apocalypse begins, in fact, because of the lawless nature of it all, the phenomenon itself will manage to get worse.

Think about some of the worst kinds of people you can imagine. Once you’ve done that, you now need to understand that those people exist in a world of rules, laws, and social norms, and, that a zombie apocalypse…doesn’t. The things that may hold some people back from becoming truly monstrous won’t be there anymore, meaning they can delve into behavior that is unequivocally evil, with the only thing to stop them being someone else’s willingness to do it by force.

This means that ordinary bad people, while not good by any means, are, generally, always going to be better than people who are certifiably evil. For example, as bad as group that seeks to control or extort other groups likely would be in the apocalypse, they’re infinitely better than a group that feeds captives to zombies, are some kind of insane death cult, or cannibals.

As bad as some people can be, chances are, there’s always going to be someone out there who’s worse.