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AndreLeGeant posted...

You could eventually kill off infected or they'd die off.

Doubt they'd die out. Some of the money at powerful enemies are the first infected that are still living. Doubt it'd ever possible to ever kill them off either. They far outnumber the remaining humans.

It'd basically make no difference. By the time the game and show happen, no new infected survive to become a monster. They all are either killed, or commit suicide. It's the same result, no new infected. The only difference it'd make is having a slightly higher survival rate, which would raise the numbers in the human side a bit, but not really enough to make a huge difference. Killing old infected and preventing new infections is essentially the same as immunizing them to not get infected.

AndreLeGeant posted...

The real point is that this major choice for Joel makes no sense, though Druckman insists we should assume the cure would have been found

His choice does make sense, from his perspective. There wouldn't be a discussion if it was cut and dry. I'm just saying a successful cure wouldn't actually affect things very much.