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Originally Posted by Nicky91

tbf Negan had saved Judith, Dog in the blizzard last season finale



and honestly i think Alexandria needs Negan as their strategic general against the whisperers, like he gave some serious good advice to Gabriel, that the people in Alexandria need calmth, even if it takes to just fake that





what Alpha, Beta did is already 100 times worse than what Negan had done, murdering dozens and then also putting their heads up on stakes just for some psychological warfare, marking their border

Negan bashed Glen and Abraham's heads in for an almost identical warning and as psychological warfare, and it was made clear that he did that every time he found a new group, so had definitely killed dozens in the same way. Saviors also killed ALL of the men from the beach group when that didn't work (though I think they might have palmed that one off on Simon?).

Still, the point stands, Negan bashed in brains to keep people in line and to enslave them. It's not really any different to cutting off heads.