"watch your back, but by this time, ever the hardened criminal would be humbled enough to enjoy the company and come to the revelation of Unity."
While I'd like to believe in my fellow man, having read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I've come to understand starvation and lack of fluid does horrid things to ones moral compass and notion of what is edible.
Perhaps just continue watching your back and try only to team up with family & frens.
ALWAYS keep children protected.