OK. Having followed TWD from the beginning (never read the comics, this is purely about the TV show), I am wondering who would agree and who wouldn't agree that there maybe something of the Governor in all of us?

Picture my situation:-

I am a happily married guy with 3 great kids and mid level job that pays well but does not inspire me. I love my family very much but suffer from the same monotony as a lot of people, i.e get up, go to work, come home, have dinner, shower, bit of TV, bed, do it all again (the exception being the weekend of course).

Now imagine the ZA. You wake up one morning and find that your wife took this kids shopping, and that the world outside is going to hell. Your phone rings and it's your wife telling you they cannot get out from where they are, you hear glass breaking and then your family screaming. The phone goes dead.

You are alone and everything you love has been taken away in a 30 second phone snapshot.

Cut to 12 months later. You have survived alone, killed hundreds of walkers in doing so and maybe a couple of humans to protect your ammo and supplies they were going to take before killing you.

You meet a group of people (weaker than you) and lead them on through all of the dangers and keep them alive. Said group gets larger and eventually you find a place that is fortifiable. 6 months later, you have a township of 100 people and are living a normal life.

Outside of this town, we all know bandits will continue surviving and looting and killing and you do not want that to happen. Would you not see outsiders as a threat and try to combat the problem? I mean let's face it, Woodbury would never be able to keep growing until Woodbury was the USA, maybe this is as good as it will get?

I just kinda think that there is part of the Governor in all of us. Let's remember that the rules of the old world are gone. Not saying I agree with everything he has done, but I think we would all become "morally flexible" in the ZA.

 

Any thoughts?