Akabinxstar
Bringing up the procedure working or not is always going to be a flawed stance because it dwells entirely in speculation, so I'm not going to even entertain that point. My whole point is that regardless of context, circumstances, or otherwise, what happened paints Joel as a selfish individual. He was willing to kill dozens to save one -- willing to doom thousands to save a single person. His reasoning wasn't altruistic, it came from overattachment and the loss of his own daughter. Would I do the same to save a loved one of my own? Of course I would -- but I would never deny that my actions were selfish.
Fair. Though now that I think about it, if the cure did work I wonder. Would it have made the world a better place? I mean yeah the clickers and Cordyceps would be purged, but at that point humanity had already grown accustomed to it. The factions of tyrannical groups, cults, cannibals, rivarly between the firelies and other organizations would still linger on.