In all honesty, I think that the most important principle to keep is to stay true to your own beliefs and morals.
For every single principle that I came up for before this, I thought of some extreme thing that would make me at least question that principle. I do not believe that there is one straightforward, right way to live because things are constantly changing.
The life that the boy and the man live in The Road is extreme, things have clearly changed for them, and they have had to do things that they could probably never imagine doing before, but I do not think that they have done anything completely wrong. A principle that I think (I hope) most people live by and that I live by right now is not to kill, and this is a good thing, but in The Road, the man has to kill the man to survive, and I think that put in that situation no matter how hard it may be, many of us would do the same if it were life or death.
Things change, people change. They adapt and they learn. I might not be able to imagine a time or place when I would be okay with certain things, but if I were, that would be okay.
