Exactly. A bullet hits Bob and goes through him (they made a point of finding the exit wound). But bullet hits a rotting zombie and Daryl is just fine behind it?

"One man, a baby, and two little ladies". (and maybe one psychotic pre-teen)

I get what you are saying, but if the Governor had peacefully accepted they all work together, it just would have been more prison and more talking and more working out of things. Really the show just needed to be totally broken apart. Its a survival story and they now need to find a new way to survive.