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Would you have save Ellie like the game makes you, or would you let them use her to find a cure?

I would have barricaded the room the best I could in the hopes I could hold off the fireflies until she wakes up.

If I succeeded I'd have asked what she wanted while also telling her what that would mean.

I would wipe out the fireflies

I'd help with the procedure.

Cocytus posted...

Would you have save Ellie like the game makes you, or would you let them use her to find a cure?

The fireflies aren't a good organization. They aren't some saints that would use the cure to help people. They're pretty much a terrorist organization that had been known to bomb innocents.

Letting them have the only known cure would only give them power.

Also there was no guarantee it would have worked and they may have killed Ellie for nothing.

Would the possible existance of a cure be a good thing? Sure. But it shouldn't be owned by the fireflies.

Besides it wasn't like they were asking. They never gave her a choice. They never let Ellie make her own decision and give her a cahnce to say goodbye to Joel. They tried forcing him away at gunpoint. They forced his hand.

I would have asked for details about the procedure before I let them go off with Ellie so she could get a say in what happens

MyMainAccount posted...

I would have asked for details about the procedure before I let them go off with Ellie so she could get a say in what happens

And they probably would hit you with the butt of a gun in response.

Wipe them out, all of them, show no mercy.

Just_a_loser posted...

The fireflies aren't a good organization. They aren't some saints that would use the cure to help people. They're pretty much a terrorist organization that had been known to bomb innocents.

Letting them have the only known cure would only give them power.

Also there was no guarantee it would have worked and they may have killed Ellie for nothing.

Would the possible existance of a cure be a good thing? Sure. But it shouldn't be owned by the fireflies.

Besides it wasn't like they were asking. They never gave her a choice. They never let Ellie make her own decision and give her a cahnce to say goodbye to Joel. They tried forcing him away at gunpoint. They forced his hand.

Good point

Save Ellie, every time. There's no point in a cure because the world is beyond hope regardless. Imagine the infected all just disappear instantly. You still have these problems:

- 60% of the world's population is freaking dead.
- The military is the only remaining portion of the US government, and to all appearances just another street gang.
- Literal anarchy virtually everywhere.
- Virtually every manmade structure and infrastructure needs to be demolished and rebuilt.
- The economy amounts to bartering if you're lucky and more commonly i kill u and take it.

Never mind that the fireflies are one of the most mustache twirling villain organizations in all of fiction and you'd be giving them the mother of all bargaining chips to gain power.

Literally the best thing they can do is what they did: Abandon the world at a macro scale and find a community that's rebuilding small.

Sacrifice Ellie to find a cure, every single time. The chance to even try to potentially find a cure for humanity is immeasurable against the life of any single human being.

I can recognize the merits of both sides, so I'd kill the Fireflies and sacrifice Ellie.

Highly_Evolved posted...

Sacrifice Ellie to find a cure, every single time. The chance to even try to potentially find a cure for humanity is immeasurable against the life of any single human being.

That is true but not when it would be terrorists holding the only cure.

The only thing Joel did wrong was lying to Ellie about it. He should have been honest. She would have understood it. People think lying protects people but it just makes it worse.

Wipe out Fireflies but kidnap the doctor and save Ellie.

tbf, I think that people are thinking in the short-term.

let's say the cure works, and the Fireflies, a terrorist organization, has the only access to it - yea, that's going to suck for what, a few years? 10-20 years?

even if it leads to some shitty, fascist government (they already have one with FEDRA), once people don't worry about having to turn into zombies, they can kill off the remaining zombies, then they can work towards having revolutions, and stuff like that.

...I still choose saving Ellie, though.

CommonStar posted...

Wipe out Fireflies but kidnap the doctor and save Ellie.

the doctor is the one who says Ellie has to die

Baron_Ox posted...

the doctor is the one who says Ellie has to die

He'll just have to find another way.

Save Ellie. There has to be a way to make the cure without killing her. I just think the doctor is being lazy and desperate.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Save Ellie, every time. There's no point in a cure because the world is beyond hope regardless. Imagine the infected all just disappear instantly. You still have these problems:

- 60% of the world's population is freaking dead.
- The military is the only remaining portion of the US government, and to all appearances just another street gang.
- Literal anarchy virtually everywhere.
- Virtually every manmade structure and infrastructure needs to be demolished and rebuilt.
- The economy amounts to bartering if you're lucky and more commonly i kill u and take it.

Never mind that the fireflies are one of the most mustache twirling villain organizations in all of fiction and you'd be giving them the mother of all bargaining chips to gain power.

Literally the best thing they can do is what they did: Abandon the world at a macro scale and find a community that's rebuilding small.

Literally none of those things devalue a potential cure except maybe the Fireflies being shitty, are you insane? "There's no point in a cure" is an outright false statement.