* SPOILERS * Ending of The Last of Us, what would you have done?

[The Fury]

Ka-pi96 said:

The Fury said:

A simple question would have sorted that and I had a hard time believing a soldier would be that cold to just shoot a child based on, at that time, nothing. Shame they couldn't mention something to flesh that out (like a brief first cases were in children or something bullcrap like that).

To be fair stuff like that does happen in a lot of other movies as well. Some kind of infection, so quarantine the area and kill anyone that tries to get out, or even just exterminate everyone there, just in case any of them are infected.

Movies are quite seemingly strict about the open indication that a child was killed/harmed by another's hand, you see men get attacked in whatever setting, zombie or not but rarely a child. In the case of a quarantine area and someone getting out, there never is any children among them, usually just adults. 

CityOfNoobs said:

I did not say what military or what soldiers, but yes it still happens today , maybe not in the so called civilized world that we know of, but it has throughout history. My point is that a soldier ordered to contain a zombie outbreak shooting a child he thought could be infected and was ordered to do so is not very far fetched. 

Do they know it's a zombie outbreak? At that point surely it is more confusing than anything and to be honest you see an adult, quite in control holding a child, you aren't going to assume they will turn hostile instantly.

It's weird, after all the entire game, this part is the bit I find most unrealistic (not because of setting but basic humanity). This moment of a soldier just shooting them for no reason makes no sense to me even given the situation. Maybe I've got a different mentality to everyone else though.