sales2099 said:
Thank you. I had the unpopular opinion that the Firefly massacre was completely undeserved deaths. Those people were trying to find a cure and Ellie consented to the operation. Joel was selfishly protecting a misplaced sense of fatherhood when he killed those people. |
Not really, it's easy to look at the Fireflies like the good guys wanting to save humanity, but with all that happened over the years, everyone or every groups are walking the fine line of being good or bad. The military was prone to act like a totalitarian state while also providing some form of safety and security, while the Fireflies were offering freedom and justice, but also bordering on anarchy which basically caused the fall of the Pittsburgh quarantine zone.
There was no way for Joel to know if by killing Ellie, without even let her the time to regain consciousness and make her own informed decision, they will actually find a cure. And if they were able to, how can he be sure that they will not use it for their own agenda. What is clear from Joel's action, is that he beleive that humanity as reached a point of no return and sacrificing the girl he developped feeling for, will serve nothing.
