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

Fear the Walking Dead season 7

What happens when “doing bad to do good” amounts to nothing?

One thing I’ve noticed this season (and I’m assuming this is intentional) is that most of these attempts by people to do bad to do good wind up amounting to absolutely nothing in the end: Charlie lying to get into the tower, Howard being Strand’s stooge, John framing Howard to get into Strand’s ear, even Strand’s super-pragmatism to achieve his civilization, all either have or likely will lead to nothing in the end.

I don’t know all the myriad ways people may attempt to apply the whole “Ends justify the means” thing, but I can guarantee that at least some of those attempts will fail, and if you’re the person leading the charge to do it, what happens then? What do you do when you’ve sacrificed your humanity to achieve something that, ultimately, blows up in your face?

If you decide that your group can create a perfect society, but only after getting rid of a specific group of people, what do you do if you’ve “gotten rid” of whoever the “undesirables” were, and your group still has problems? Are you going to admit that you screwed up? Or are you just going to dig in because you’ve gone too far to go back?

What do you tell the people who look to you for leadership? What would you advise any kids or younger family you might have? How do you explain that you’ve done evil things for the greater good, which you never really achieved?

The problem with that whole mentality is that you can’t afford to screw up. If you make a mistake in judgment, you’ll have done some heinous things for nothing and maybe even dragged the people you care about down into Hell with you. When was the last time you met someone who hadn’t made mistakes?