It really is a horrible choice. I can't bring myself to condemn Joel for what he did.

Ellie is so adorable. On that note, GOOD NEWS: someone on YouTube has collected together all of Ellie's terrible jokes! (I've only actually seen the first and last of these conversations; I didn't know there were five! Skipped over the ones I haven't seen in that video because I might seek them out in the game itself.)