And that exact mindset is what made it possible to form a functional community where everyone serves a practical purpose.
I think that without this, the change would have been slower; Teach would have gradually taught Guwong to treat them with human dignity, but it would have happened little by little—even if only to humor him.
But now, the change will be forced and much more rapid... or else they’ll simply kill everyone off and start over with more docile, useful people. :v
It's practical and realistic, albeit morally cruel. But it's somehow true; in an apocalypse where survival is the priority, how much does that morality help once the system has already collapsed?

I’m incredibly curious to see where the author takes the story from here, because I’m 3,000% on the big guy’s side - I don’t think that shitty moralizing has any place in an apocalypse. And the hypocrisy just pisses me off.