The games gives you it's reasoning, as I've explained in great detail, like I said take it or leave I'm not getting hung up on this anymore.
The game gives a poor reasoning that doesn’t justify it’s stupid actions at all. Like I said, you are deflecting because you can’t even bring yourself to accept that the script is poorly written.
And many of them don't. Some of them do, turns these "murderous torturing soldiers" have individual characters, thoughts and emotions and aren't just the random goons they're presented as from Ellie's perspective
Having individual characters means little when they are all aboard in murder, torture and kill children. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
The fact that they decide to not kill this random stranger that puts them all their lives at serious risk is just another dumb plot armor and lazy writting.
And guess what? They all end up dead for that.
Thank god for Lev then, if he hadn't of stopped her they'd have died in Santa Barbra
Or, you know, Abby could have killed her and Tommy the first time and all her friends would be alive.
Literally the moral of the story is: don’t let witness alive and you’ll be fine.
This is also how Ellie is presented in the theater encounter, at first, so you, as Abby attempt to kill her just like everyone else. You're about to succeed before Dina, a pregnant women steps in. Lev helps Abby see the light and convinces Abby not to kill a pregnant women, so therefore as a result she also can't kill Ellie because then the cycle may continue with Dina. So this time, finally she takes the high road rather than enacting revenge
Lev is the greatest charlatan ever, he can convince Abby from going to murderous psycho about to kill a pregnant teen with joy, to being the next Jesus in literally 1 second and just by calling her name. Impressive.
Abby hasn’t seen any light, she is still a murderous psycho that doesn’t repent at all. She is just running away now that all her friends are dead, she is just clinging to Lev and the fireflies to give her sad life some purpose and that’s why she wants to run away so desperately. But she hasn’t changed at all, she is just trying to survive in a situation of extreme weakness.
At the end, the game goes for the big espectacle and the shallow manipulations instead of earning the character choices and paths with good writting.
Abby and Ellie can kill hundreds of people and doesn’t matter, but they can’t kill each other because then they will lose their humanity.
Abby can kill anybody who get’s in her way and nothing happens, but she can’t kill Ellie because that would be too much and she would lose her humanity.
Ellie can kill anybody who get’s in her way to find Abby, but she can’t kill Abby because that would be too much and she would lose her humanity.
Meanwhile, the hundreds and hundreds of corpses they have let in the way, don’t mean anything, they literally don’t matter.
Such profound moral message.