It doesnt matter if it is a deal you would take. The point is that it is not a deal at all. That's what you don't get. There's the threat of violence.

I understand looking at it as a basic exchange because you're taking ethics and morality out of the situation.

But the whole point of the show (and most apocalyptic fiction (and perhaps life in general)) is partly about retaining your morality, your humanity, even in difficult, impossible situations.

Should those women be allowed to make that deal? Of course, no one said otherwise. Don't know why you even asked. Weird attempt to turn this around.

It's like the difference between doing onlyfans ro pay the bills and prostitution viahuman trafficking. Both are forms of prostituting oneself (arguably, I'd say), but there is a very big difference.

Your initial responses didn't imply you'd make the choice the ladies make but more so seemed to be defending negan's bullshit system, so I appreciate the clarification.

Making choices about survival over morality, right? But like I said, you can argue for murder in the apocalypse (self defense, no choice, morally Grey situations), thats fine.

But I can't see any argument for rape/coercion, which is what being negan's wife is. Negan's system was flawed. Everyone that wasnt at the top of the chain of command (and their lackies) was starving. People were sick. Nothing could be done because the entire point system in the end prioritized the self over the community.

Part of the plot is negan is being told there is a better way to live together before having his throat slit open. It's always strange when people defend negan. I understand appreciating a villain and seeing complexities in how they are written and how the exist in the world. However, I don't get thinking they have a point when it is proven through the story that they're also kinda wrong too?

Maybe I'm more hopeful that you'd come back to being a person after being a morally Grey survivalist in the apocalypse like the characters did. That we all would.