‘The Last Of Us’ Presents An Ethical Dilemma: Kill A Child To Save Humanity?

‘The Last Of Us’ Presents An Ethical Dilemma: Kill A Child To Save Humanity?


A debate about the moral conundrum presented in “The Last of Us” is raging all over again now that TV fans were introduced to Joel’s impossible choice: save one child, or save humanity?

Only the question isn’t as simple as that, which is why video game players have been debating this exact issue for years before the HBO Max television adaptation brought the story to a wider audience. For those who don’t know, “The Last of Us” follows two people as they journey across a post-zombie apocalypse America.

Joel (Pedro Pascal) is a father who is bereft after losing his teenage daughter in the early days of the crisis. Fourteen-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is an orphan who never knew an uninfected world. But what makes Ellie special

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