Giving Ben the boot doesn't equal supporting Crawford. Crawford had ridiculous standards as seen when they threw out Vernon's group even though their cancer was in remission. Ben wasn't only a deadweight, not only a drain on resources, he was a liability that almost got Lee's group destroyed in Crawford and is responsible for the deaths of 4 group members plus Brie and I had no intention of giving him another chance to destroy the group in the next episode. Sure, outside of his snarky attitude in the first half of Ep. 4 he's a well-mannered kid and not malicious, but that doesn't mitigate the results of his stupidity, and someone who consistently screws-up on the grand scale that Ben does is too dangerous to keep around.
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