Surviving? Is it worth it.

[Tarrel]

Morals aside, feeding your neighbour may be a more pragmatic solution than shooting him. You have the potential to build emotional capital and a sense of obligation. There are benefits to operating in groups; sharing of labour, mounting round the clock watches, strength in numbers, diversity of skills.

When building a community, someone has to make the first move. I have no control over whether another person does this, but I do have control over whether it's me.

That said, I do agree with the point about looking after self and family first. First be independent, then you can reach out and be interdependent. It's when a community tries to build itself on mutual dependency that the problems can start. Like building a house on loose sand.