Ultr said:
CrazyGamer2017 said:
But selfish is the name of the game in such an apocalyptic world. If you go "Jesus" in such a world and come to people spreading your arms with a message of love, you will end up dead faster than an acute meningitis could kill you.
Also, Joel's past is the reason why he is like he is. He was never meant to be this great guy that spreads love and whatnot. He was meant to be a survivor in a tough world of murderers and survivalists.
The whole point of the game was to show us a Joel that changes and learns to love one person for real. She was just cargo at first and he was paid to take that cargo from point A to point B, period. If he's the asshole you say then that cargo should have been just cargo from beginning to end instead of becoming a person that he cares about.
Your last line reveals a subconscious psychological reality that applies to almost everybody sadly and makes REAL people actually worse than Joel. Like you say yourself IF Ellie was your daughter... implying if she is NOT your daughter, fuck her, let her die, cash in the money from the Fireflies and off you go... At least Joel did not fall that low still being the asshole that he was before meeting Ellie.
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.... holy... what? You just made that completely up.
Implying... man you should stop insulting people around here
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It's funny (or rather sad) how you deliberately avoid answering the obvious question here.
You did imply if she's NOT your daughter she's only cargo to you or a thing that is not your problem.... I made nothing up, you simply could not say "I'd save her EVEN if she was not my daughter", you couldn't say it because what I said there is exactly the truth.
And again the problem is not just one person (you) the problem is that this form of selfish rationalization is "logic" to a LOT of people and it's probably the reason why the scenarios we see in so many games/movies/TV shows like The Last of Us or The Walking Dead where humans are as much a danger to humans as zombies are, is a very realistic scenario should some kind of apocalypse hit the real mankind. The only difference in the real world being that there would only be humans and no zombies obviously.
