The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Hard Choices

Whether you like it or not, sometimes you must leave people behind

A good deal of this week’s Walking Dead focused on Alden being injured by one of The Reapers. Maggie and Negan were then forced to drag him along as they desperately try to escape and continue on their way to Meridian. Eventually, when Negan reminds her that they need to keep going, Maggie gets belligerent, arguing with him about his callousness, but Negan deflates it with one sentence: “You still have to decide.”

Sadly, things are not always simple in an apocalypse. There will be times where you need to move, and members of your group simply may not be able to do it, due to injury or illness. In cases like this, where the success of a mission, or even the survival of your group at large, requires swiftness an injured party can’t carry out, and you have no other means of transporting them, you may have no choice but to leave them behind.

Now, obviously, this isn’t something you should do frivolously — It’s someone’s life we’re talking about, here — but, if you don’t have the means to transport them safely, and you have other lives at stake, you have to seriously consider leaving your injured friend behind to get the rest of your group to safety.

It won’t be fun, it won’t be easy, but…you still have to decide.