Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26814591-20150724030749/@comment-76.17.103.248-20150726162148

The Arkers weren't exactly forcing their morality on the grounders. Abbey, Bellamy and Clarke were simply protecting one of their own from the inhumane, cruel, and savage treatment the grounders wanted to inflict on Finn under the guise of justice. But that wasn't justice. That was animalistic revenge, like Abbey said. It looks like mankind had regressed. Mercy, decency, compassion, all the higher qualities of an evolved society were forgotten.

Not only does mankind have a propensity for killing their own kind, I think we're the only species that takes pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering on each other. We used to draw and quarter people, burn them at the stake, crucify them, rack them, and perform all sorts of horrors on the human body. In some third world countries, similar violenced still goes on. And here some of you are in 2015 and raised in a so called civilized society advocating grounder rights under the excuse of "survival". You can't appreciate that Abbey had an impossible choice. You wanted her to just let the grounders have their way with Finn and rip him apart.

Survival doesn't necessarily demand we give into our baser instincts. It matters what you become in the struggle for survival. Like Dante and Abbey said, you have to make sure that mankind deserves to survive. Clarke exercised compassion and mercy. She didn't give in and let the grounders' baser instincts rule. If that's forcing the Ark people's morality on the grounders, then good for her.