Carol left so she wouldn’t have to kill people, but leaving caused her to kill 3-4 other people. Does this make any sense? Is it ok only to kill people to protect yourself but not others?
Carol didn’t kill those men until they said they were going to Alexandria so I think she killed them to protect the others.
This is getting too tense.
I think seeing pregnant Maggie eager to kill, putting herself and the baby at risk, broke her. Carol tried to save her, and Maggie wants to risk herself, and as the mother of the group and symbolic grandmother.
She is willing to risk herself over and over again (like risking zombies to fix water pump at the prison) but can’t stand seeing yet another person she cares go out to kill and maybe get killed.
And while losing her own daughter made her toughen up, and protecting the group made her badass, the losses are starting to be too much and she’ll be too weak. And she knows if she bends, she’ll break when they need her most, and they’ll all die.
So she chooses the less painful route, isolation, over loss again and again.