Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule: How far would you go?

Fear the Walking Dead season 7 finale

How far would you go?

This is my greater theme this week, but it’s a valid question: How far would you go? What is the limit of things that go against your moral compass that you could tolerate doing?

Since being separated from her children, Madison spent the years becoming a mercenary for P.A.D.R.E., a willing soldier in their quest to quickly acquire a population of people they could indoctrinate without the resistance they’d get from teenagers or adults. For a woman who’d worked so hard to hold her family together even before the apocalypse to turn around and not only separate people from their children but to lie to their faces while doing it or even kill them to do it, this is a vast departure.

Would you be willing to go that far? Would you take someone else’s children? Would you hand them off to strangers? Would you get violent with people who weren’t a threat? Would you destroy another group, even if they posed no threat to you or your group?

I imagine that most people would say “No,” but I also know that it’s difficult to truly understand what you or any of us would do, so far removed from the desperation of a zombie apocalypse. We say we wouldn’t stoop to those levels, but think about the most desperate you’ve ever been, and I mean the most absolutely desperate you can ever possibly imagine you’ve ever been and imagine that you see no end to that in sight, and ask yourself: Could I go that far?

If your answer is “Maybe,” you understand just how serious the question really is.