Fear The Walking Dead, SROTW: Honesty IS The Best Policy
By Liam O'Leary
Fear the Walking Dead season 7
If people know you’ve lied, they will not appreciate it.
As this week’s episode of Fear TWD ended, Wes had become so disgusted with Luciana lying to Daniel to use him against Strand that he left and defected to the tower. This is a pretty good approximation of what someone in your own group in a zombie apocalypse might do if they discover that you have lied to someone else in your group.
I asked this once before, but it warrants repeating: If you decide you’re going to lie to someone in your group, what will you do when your lie is found out?
What explanation could you give to the rest of your group that they’d believe? You would have already shown them your willingness to lie to someone who you’re trusting your life with, so what could you do to prove to them you weren’t lying to them?
Once that trust is broken, suddenly, it becomes a lot easier for people to treat you no differently than they would a stranger, including throwing you under the bus or leaving you to the mercy of hostiles, because they may not just think they can’t rely on you, but could easily see your lie as an outright betrayal.
People do not like being lied to or seeing others they care about being lied to, and if they see someone they thought they could trust doing it, there’s no telling what they might do.
It’s bad enough to not have trust in a zombie apocalypse, but when you destroy the trust you had, whatever happens to you afterward is your own fault.
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And that’s our Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week! Lying is typically a bad enough prospect, but it is downright terrible in a zombie apocalypse. Between trying to keep the lies up, what the person who’s been lied to might do once they’ve learned the truth, and what other people in your group might do once the lie gets out, you learn that honesty really is the best policy. And, if you want to achieve the best policy for you to survive in the apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can also get it at Amazon here, on iTunes here!