"Flyboy", Stephen's nickname by Peter due to his knowledge in operating the chopper, flippantly comments about how humans should be more organized and solve the zombie crisis. Peter, who sees the world in all its complexity and layers, recognizes that simply abandoning how zombies were once human isn't all that easy to some, asking Stephen if he'd behead Francine if she was bit and turned. So others debating the ability to do so makes sense to Peter and Flyboy needed to realize that. Never more so is this relevant than when Roger is bitten after going through this period of heightened mania, wildly hooting and hollering during a critical undertaking when he and Peter were driving truck haulers to block the entrance of the mall. I have always wondered what suddenly initiated such a crazed and unstable behavior after handling himself so sufficiently and level-headed throughout. It has always remained a nagging decision I ponder, a character change that seemed questionable because it happens out of the blue. It isn't this gradual erosion in his mental state. That said, it is a means to a point: Roger will eventually die and Peter will have to take the position he questioned Flyboy about. When Roger deteriorates and the turn happens, Peter will have to spare him of a zombie "life" (or is walk better?). So Peter experiences what others had, completely understanding why just shooting them in the head isn't always so easy.
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