I expect Daniel can justify breaking and entering in exactly the same way Strand can justify lying through his teeth about where he's taking everyone over and over and over. They're pretty much both on the same level of morality and both done for the same basically selfish reasons.
The difference is that this is all Strand's deal. Aside from the unbalanced scale (in his favor) of him saving their lives from walkers and/or bombings, he's not even given the benefit of doubt. He's relentlessly criticized, disrespected, threatened and generally harassed. If Daniel was the captain of the boat and provided the only means of escape, I would say the same thing.
Avoiding biting the hand that feeds you out of the gate is just an accepted rule of basic human relationships, and that rule is only broken when one the one that fed you violates that relationship.
So far, as of a few season one and two episodes, Strand is not the Governor or Negan--he's not kidnapping people, executing them, or forcing anything on them. What has he asked for? What are his demands (other than basic respect)? On the other hand, Travis & company demand, demand, demand, violate and threaten. If you were Strand, would
you put up with that?
And the threat to Madison's kids is not even remotely imaginary. Strand has lied a dozen times over, has now openly admitted to lying while refusing to explain why, has acted like an angry dictator and has proven he has absolutely no regard for any agreement he makes with the other people in his group - if need be, he'll just nod his head and come back later to force his own way when no one's looking. When your family's lives are in the hands of someone that untrustworthy and unpredictable, a warning of some sort is not out of order.
...but you're ignoring how every step of the way, Travis & company attempt to force their will on Strand--
- Travis encourages Alicia to use the radio--which was idiotic and dangerous. Now, the boat is trying to outrun some unknown ship and/or group.
- Madison tried to force the suicide mother's kids on board--not even thinking to ask the captain/owner if it was acceptable. Who does that? Same with the airplane survivors. This family just forces their will as if they are running the show. No normal mind operates in that way yet fails to expect conflict.
And he would now be sitting on a useless boat floating aimlessly over the ocean because he's too stupid to realize that learning how to fix the damn boat might be a necessary skill.
Or, without making pointless detours, he would have reached his destination long before the problem. Moreover, few boat captains--both pleasure and commercial never fix their own boats. It is common for owners to use boat repair/maintenance services. Millions buy cars, but the majority are not trying to fix their cars on their own,
yet no one calls them "stupid" for operating a vehicle they do not repair. Are they less entitled to own and decide how their vehicle is used? How is it any different for Strand--who obviously owned the boat long before the ZA, and probably used maintenance services like endless boat and car owners?
Where is the common sense in respecting a 'captain' who has no legitimate claim to the term 'captain' in the first place, who acts like a dictator, who openly lies to your face and does not give an ounce of respect to anyone even when they're *actively engaged in saving his life*?
He owns the boat and knows how to operate (drive) it, read its instruments and maps. That makes him the captain.
The only one with a 'bug up their ass' here is you.
Said the person who is so completely hostile to the Strand character, calling him a
dictator, stupid and other insults you never use against the Travis gang.
Hmm....what was that again about the bug up the ass?
If Rick's group had left, Hershel would have continued housing zombies in the barn, so, therefore, they all would've died a lot sooner when that pathetic lock broke open in the middle of the night.
The barn was not the TARDIS. It had limited space, and he was not going to keep piling endless numbers of zombies on top of zombies until the walls fell, or filling it to the point where even cracking to door meant a horde spilled out like college game day. Only using on screen evidence, Rick's group inadvertently caused the fall of the farm with that gunshot, and as a result, the Greene family were "out in the world," exposed to threats the would have never encountered if remaining on the farm.
Given his extraordinary insight into what was happening, why on earth would you think he wouldn't have done exactly that?
His "insight" was that he head there were infections in 5 states, and in this culture, its likely he--like others--heard rumors or confirmations online. His advantage is that he was quick to believe the reports. That said, unless you have some natural survival skills (ex. Glenn in TWD season one), you will not only have to struggle to survive, but have your chances cut down if you have family members and/or friends who are not up to the challenge (too frail, panicking, fatalistic, disbelieving, insisting on waiting for government rescue, etc.).
If some tough group passed through L.A. and he joined them, then I could see him surviving, but without such an intervention, he would be as susceptible to the mass walker outbreak as everyone else--or he hides in a house like Morgan (TWD S1).
Living in the city means he's probably dead from walkers or bombings, unless he left the city not long after he was dropped off.
