Doctors in a plague is one thing, a single surgeon in a divided post-apocalyptic wasteland beset by a global disease and with no infrastructure whatsoever to manufacture said vaccine or transport it to all the afflicted populations is *quite another*.
That's the thing, the prospect of a light at the end of the tunnel is what drives all the other civilization-building stuff People are willing to do the shitty farming and patrolling and building and other labor if they can imagine a better world at the end of it
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When they really truly come to believe this is impossible, that's when you get the Lord of the Flies shit Like the response to the collapse of the Fireflies is for many of them to *become* selfish bandits, like the Wolves
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Ehhhh. Plenty of people in history have had that light at the end of the tunnel be future generations of their community, no immediate Grand Redemption demanded. And certainly none of this changes the inherent danger of such messianic dreams.
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