True, but these are fairly minor and understandable sacrifices relative to what other leaders have been doing to keep their group alive. Heck, keeping the surgeon around who beats his wife is entirely understandable for the good of the community. Her son was an idiot, but it seems like most of them were pretty naïve about the outside.
I bet they have an exile hearing and it turns into them electing Rick leader. People have to know this woman let her son run rampant, knowingly lets a man beat his wife, all in the name of creating her idyllic utopia vision.
My question is more related to "when" the W gets put on their forehead? Several walkers had W's, and the one girl tied to the tree who was freshly killed and turned while tied up had it, meaning before being killed. And the guy sitting across from Morgan had it already. So is this simply how they recognize each other? And, eww, why?
The guys that attacked Morgan had an "ash" W, not a carved W. I'm assuming they do it after they are killed, or in the process of, either way.