Personally,
I agree with whoever said Rick doesn't mind executing people, he just has a problem when its not HIS CALL. That's 100% true. Every time he does it, the character himself, plus the viewers here leap to justify his killings, but that's exactly what Carol did. Kill and then justify.
Rick's speech about "Not being their Governor" means NOTHING at this point. Under the guise of a personal decision he made a unilateral decision that could have VERY bad repercussions for the group. How? Here's 2: 1) Daryl refuses to accept it, and upon learning of the event and the reasoning behind it, leaves by himself to go in search of Carol. Anyone who even TRIES to make an argument Daryl wouldn't leave the group to its own devices whatever their circumstances while he did what he felt needs to be done hasn't been watching Daryl closely enough.
2) If Herschel comes down debilitatingly ill, that leaves only Mr. Alcoholic The New Guy as the only semi-competent possessor of medical expertise. PLUS, given the report Rick is going to receive on Tyreese should Daryl and Co. survive to return to the Prison, it's quite arguable that Tyreese needs to be locked up. He didn't even APOLOGIZE for turning those gas-station Walkers loose with his blind-rage-induced hacking at the vegetation. Plus, on 2 separate occasions that run he's exhibited suicidal behavior. (Being incredibly late to leave the car, which would have endangered other lives had Rick been leading that run and not Daryl, because Rick would've demanded they go back for him, whereas Daryl made the right call to leave him behind...and refusing to let go of the Walker in the bushes, until he finally dragged it out and it landed on top of him, putting DARYL at risk to pull the Walker that NEVER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN ONTO TYREESE in the FIRST PLACE off the man.)
Rick kills people he feels need killing all the time. What Carol was trying to prevent WASN'T Karen and David moving about spreading it to others. She was trying to prevent exactly what happened to Herschel when Herschel was attending to the Doc. Ie: The primary caregivers being critically exposed to the disease by breathing in high concentrations of aerosolized infected blood from their wracking coughing fits.
Which doesn't even take into account that the Prison is so short on healthy bodies that Herschel has GLENN, one of the sick helping him at this point. Oh yea, I'm just positive that using what little energy he has is improving Glenn's prognosis.
Rick made a unilateral decision. Of the type that Shane was so often damned for, but simply because it's Rick that's OK with many folks. Not with me. Personally, upon hearing that Rick just "Voted someone off the Island, the moment he had them away from the Prison, I'd shoot the bastard in the back myself...because runs need to be made, but now Rick is completely untrustworthy as a run-leader. He might decide to exile Tyreese next for being a loose cannon....or Michonne for taking unnecessary risks that involves others putting themselves at risk to pull her ass out of the fire. That's the problem with a slippery slope. It's SLIPPERY. Today's judgment call/difficult decision is tomorrow's snap judgment. This is EXACTLY the sort of decision-making that LEADS to the evolution of entities such as the Governor.
Bottom line: With most of the primary figures down or out of town, Rick felt he could get away with making a unilateral decision concerning Carol. And DUH, of COURSE it was Lizzie who killed them! Why ELSE would Carol have WANTED TO TAKE CHILDREN OUT INTO THE ZOMBIE-FILLED WASTES???
Which is the other problem with a snap decision. It allows no time for human nature to play out, and for the truth to shake out, as it often does in these sorts of "small town" settings. But, let's say Rick DOES find out Carol DIDN'T do it. He's STILL gonna get a pass for his decision "Because he didnt know" right?
I would kill anyone around me with a habit of playing God with the lives of others in a post-apocalyptic world. I'd rather go down like Shane trying to do what I thought was right. (And let's remember, one of the KEY issues for Shane in DECIDING to off Rick was his conviction that Rick's moralizing was going to get Lori, Carl, and Lori's unborn child killed. Wow, did he call that one or what?)
Currently, the people at the Prison are Sheep, and Rick is the Judas Goat. Look up the term for yourself, it'll be educational.
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