Another answer: Close the cargo compartment doors? Or to lean to one side to allow gravity to keep the syringe from falling out of your pocket? Or have Clem catch it with one of her hands? You can still hold her with the other, if you drop her, you are a pretty weak adult, right? I mean, I doubt there is a way in that situation you COULDN'T save both.
I only choose Clementine because I'd think of her as my daughter, a little girl I'd sworn to protect with my life, and that I'd expected to survive. Any situation where her life was in my hands, that she could see me, was crying, was pleading to save her, was knowing that I could save her, there is no way in the game or not that I could let her die to save anyone else. It may sound selfish, but as a man, and if I were a parent, I would not be able to sacrifice someone I loved, even for humanity's sake. They'd have to get themselves killed, and even then I'd probably be so shocked and such I'd hesitate to react. I'd say I'd think a lot like Kenny. That she could survive, that she could make it in this world with me if I pulled her up. What good was an antidote if she died? I was doing it all for her, surviving for her, I was raising her to survive the ZA. That antidote might not even save anyone. It would stop the future children from becoming walkers. So what? They'd be born into a world infested with walkers anyway, and when their parents die they'd become walkers. What good is not being infected if you die from a single bite anyway? When all that was needed was shooting you in the head and it'd be the same affect? That antidote was too soon. The walkers in the world would have to be dealt with before trying to get the world to go back to normal.
So I stand firm that'd I'd save Clementine. I'm sure most fathers/mothers would agree, that if faced in that position, there is no chance they'd drop Clem(their daughter) on their own. She'd have to drop herself.
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"That little girl is in my care. We've been through more together than you can imagine. Anyone who tries to get between me and her-ANYONE- is gonna wind up dead! You hear me!?"
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