why is the plot in apocalypse series always that everyone is aginst everyone? that all people need to arm themselves because everyone wants to kill each other?
in real life scenarios of extreme situations, in almost every case humans would stick together and show altruistic behaviour, share everything because that is the only way to survive. but in fiction it is always the opposite(?).
why is it like that? what do you think?
Boring answer: It’s just more exciting that way. I’m sure that fiction about everyone getting along and working together would be nice and all, but lets not kid ourselves, it would be a dull story compared to a tense and thrilling story about a lone survivor/small group against a hostile world. It’s one of the main pulls of the genre, to upend civilization to remove the trappings of order and protection that it provides to facilitate storytelling that can utilize the chaos and uncertainty that is possible without it.