Quote Originally Posted by Divayth Fyr View Post
Most of our societies - for better or worse - don't really pretend "nobody is left alone" is central to their identity, unlike the Harfoots.


True. But we're shown they abandon anyone unable to keep up at the moment. A hurt ankle might prevent you from pulling your cart fast enough to keep up with the caravan, but unless you literally can't risk a single moment of delay, get attacked or don't have the means to feed you population, that isn't necessary. Even moreso when we see plenty of people who could help, but won't. Guess this could become another death to laugh at next year...
How do we know that whoever doesn't keep up "at the moment" dies? They might just as well get to the camp place for the night as much as the others, just a few hours later. I don't remember if we heard of any deaths read from the book in their ceremony-looking thing caused from "being left alone", or were those caused from snowslides and other accidents?