Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Bad For Good

Fear the Walking Dead season 7 episode 12

Fear The Walking Dead sees many characters doing bad to accomplish what they believe is good, but when does it go too far? Do the ends justify the means?

After this week’s episode of Fear The Walking Dead, “Sonny Boy,” I took a step back. I realized a common thread throughout the majority of this entire season: People attempting to do bad things to achieve an ultimately good outcome.

This week’s episode gave us Howard, John Dorie Sr., and even Strand all doing bad things, ostensibly, to achieve something good. If we go back a little, we can see that Luciana, Daniel, Charlie, Morgan, and even Arno are all doing things in a similar vein. They are all doing bad (or relatively bad) things in the hope of getting something good out of it.

In this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I thought it essential to break down this idea of “doing bad to do good” and how it can easily steer you off a cliff and turn you into someone you wouldn’t like, but someone you might not even recognize. I intend to show you just the kind of disasters this can lead you to and why, ultimately, it may just be a terrible idea from the word “go.”

We can’t be naive about the nature of survival in a zombie apocalypse, but as we’ll learn, rarely do the ends justify the means.