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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I don't read it that way. I just think he believes that people should be given the opportunity to choose a different path, one that doesn't involve unnecessarily killing other human beings. Conflicts may still happen, and he won't allow someone to kill him or his friends, but he maintains it as a last resort. I sympathize with him quite a bit actually. While there are plenty and plenty of baddies in this universe, we have also seen a tremendous capacity for good in the face of overwhelming ugliness and despair. I think he's gone full circle at a much more rapid pace than the rest of humanity, and the rest of the group has yet to catch up with where he's at. Morgan has already gone to the darkest part of his soul and come out the other side. The main group has yet to fully access that dark part, so they can't see how fruitless their current path is, in that it will always lead to more death and destruction of living human beings. In a world where human life is growing more and more scarce, Morgan isn't wrong to try and preserve it in the hopes that more and more will see the light and understand that the only way anyone makes it is if they ALL make it.
Consider that this is the first time that Rick's group has been the aggressor in a completely unprovoked way (ok, the road confrontation aside). It's a bit of a leap to assume that they need to do this for survival. Just because they haven't grown a lot of food yet doesn't mean that they couldn't co-opt systems from the Hilltoppers and reproduce food the way they have. All it takes is 1-2 extra animals for livestock raising. Crop production can be sorted out with engineering and technical know-how. Rick's group has everything it needs to be self-sustaining except for food, and instead of figuring that part out themselves, they are simply replacing Negan's group in a protection racket of the Hilltoppers. They assume that they couldn't repel Negan's group simply because the Hilltoppers couldn't, but the Alexandrians have a host of warriors that have proven their worth, plus a substantial arsenal. It's short-sighted to attack Negan's group, and it's a plan focused on aggression rather than real necessity. I think we will see just how short-sighted it was in the coming episodes.
I find Morgan's character infinitely interesting, and I would be very sad if he were offed in an unceremonious manner. Much like Herschel, this group has lacked a moral compass beyond what Rick suggests for a long time. Even people like Glenn are doing things that they don't want to do and have serious moral objections to. Mark my words, Morgan's speeches aren't just to hear himself speak. He's going to be proven as a voice of wisdom at some point.
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I hear what you're saying but the fact of the matter is that this is a world where the value of life has dipped to zero if not lower.
He wants to give people the benefit of the doubt and allow them to prove their good intentions.
We've seen it, 9 times out of 10 that that ain't happening. You give someone that chance and you'll be picking their knife out of your ribs.
Morgan is just lucky, hes only experienced this on a very small scale, at the personal level. Hes holding an ideal higher than life or death practicality and hes endangering himself and moreover hes endangering others.
He isnt dealing with the world as it is with any responsibility to anyone or anything other than his ideal.
And the fact of the matter remains that right now his ass gets to live because someone else is willing to get their hands dirty so that he can keep his clean. Eventually Rick and Co. are going to get tired of saving his ass despite his kicking and screaming.
No one is going to make it unless everyone makes it?
Thats just not going to work. I see it more as 'no one is going to make it unless only the right people make it.'
And the wrong people? They have to be removed like a cancer. Surgically if necessary.