Ok, once more...
You're lost on a dangerous island. There is no culture, there are no rules, society is a memory,
That's just it. In my experience, most adults have those rules so ingrained into them that they can't let go of them if they try. Maybe after a year or two. But not after a month.
there is no one to turn to.
You mean except for Mr. Echo and the others?
You might never see your friends and family *ever* again. Christ, you might never watch TV again, or read a novel, or go a restaurant, or go to work, or go on holiday, or vote, or eat a biscuit, or walk your dog, or dance to music, or...
You have to fight for survival every day, and that's before...
That's a bad time. I agree. I don't, however, think it erases a lifetime of conditioning and experience.
...You've been attacked by hostile natives.
All the more reason not to recklessly attack three unknown people when you don't have to.
You've watched the only people you have left die around you, possibly in very unpleasant circumstances.
Again, except for those who haven't died, like Mr. Echo and the others.
You have to live every second of every day in fear. Fear that you could be next. Fear that you'll fail the people you're responsible for.
And then three strangers turn up. At best they're ignorant yahoos that are going to get you and those you are responsible for killed, at worst they're in cahoots with the natives.
And that's why you stay away from them. Instead of pointlessly attacking them and then needlessly antagonizng them once you've let them go.
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I maintain my opinion that her behavior is highly irrational and therefore annoying. You maintain that her irrationality is exactly what you would expect and therefore you like it even though you don't like her. Fair enough. |
