Even with all the justifications you present, I do not suppose that is what drove Joel to make that call. That is what a rational, clear pondering particular person would do.
To me I feel Joel has by no means recovered from his private grief and the world as it’s would not give him that chance or luxurious. It is simply been pure hardship since Sara died. The merciless circumstances of the world value him his daughter’s life—in Ellie, he had a second probability and had the ability to vary the result, so he did.
His intentions weren’t so noble, however you might be interested by it. I feel that is the magic of this recreation, particularly the primary one: this concept that the individuals you management are of are protagonists and subsequently “the nice guys”. In actuality, they do a wonderful job of humanizing Joel by exhibiting that his actions saved one other life for egocentric causes. He is completed some horrible issues that characters should deal with within the sequel and it turns into extra obvious that there aren’t any heroes. Simply survivors.