I dont think its at all ridiculous. I think it would be even worse. Humans can be some brutal motherfuckers when given the chance to. Not to mention that pretty much anyone which has survived that long has to be pretty brutal anyway.
I agree but I think that's as far as it'll go when it comes to kids. That's why when they show any scene that involves Judith (like the guy threatening Tyreese in this last episode) I'm thinking nothing is going to happen because I can't see them killing off a baby. As far as the girls, that's a pretty messed up scene but also teaches an important lesson to Carol that she should of gotten rid of her a long time ago.
This is the thing though. They're only a year and 1/2 removed from an apocalypse that killed off 90% of humanity. We've seen no issues planting crops or raising farm animals (to some extent). There's also still going to be stuff to scavenge. This isn't a decade out from nuclear winter where you can't even drink water or an asteroid that blackened the skies and killed off vegetation.
This is really the truth of it. Most people, despite what they claim on the internet, would fall in and just be followers in a situation like this. And if the boss man is providing food you won't really care where it is coming from.
Truthfully I think in that world you would start seeing cannibal groups pop up in 4 or 5 months. The wild game would be hunted to near extinction by the survivors, and all the food would be in Iowa.
Yeah, this is pretty much how humans hunted for thousands of years.
The problem is you have to scavenge it, out in a world where there are zombies, and even more dangerous, other people. The ppl in terminus were soft as baby shit. Notice how quickly things went to shit when a herd came their way. It seems they were taken over with no resistance by the ppl in the flashbacks and notice all the ppl with the automatic weapons killing zombies, when rick gunned them down from behind, were firing from the hip - untrained and wasting lots of ammo. If they do show more flashbacks in terminus it'll be interesting to see how gareth and family took it back, guessing a lot of the ppl who took them over were out scavenging and they used that to their advantage. If the ppl of terminus had to scavenge they would be long dead, so instead they did the honey pot strategy.
i dont want to get into a whole thing because this is not just a zombie tv show, but a dumb one. but zombies in general do not have tracking abilities and their memories or senses arent very good either. they go by sound, they hear a sound coming from a direction, they head in that direction. they can smell meat or blood, but only short range. so basically a deer can easily evade a zombie as long as its out of normal human range of sight, sound and smell.