One ugly thing that I've noticed is that in a survival situation--which is sort of a war with no civil authority--you don't have jails.
You don't have any way of dealing with enemies except executing them on the spot. If you don't kill them, if you let them go.....they'll come back and kill you.
I see the dark at the end of the tunnel.
"Supposin' I was to go to work and learn how to... to read writin'. Well, how'd I know that the feller that... that wrote the writin' was a writin' the writin' right? See it could be that he wrote the writin' all wrong. Here I'd be just a readin' wrong writin', don't ya see?"
[Festus Haggen]