Originally Posted by Rew

Whoa there, you misinterpret me! Ideally we should be fueled by a desire in all of our decisions to act for the greater good of all, both of ourselves and those around us. This is how I (ideally) try to act, and I'm sure many other charitable persons in the world. Indeed, the hope is that everyone posting in this thread shares that ideal, of acting for the good of all, and therefore doesn't even need to be mentioned in a thread like this--I just assumed it of all of us.

However, what I was doing above was attempting to get inside the depraved minds of those teens, trying to wrap my mind around why they would stoop this low. Even if one doesn't give a flying flip about doing good for anybody except oneself, and all one cares about is one's own ego and selfish desires, even so these actions still make no sense. I tried to get inside their head, but their actions were so notoriously short-sighted, that I couldn't even see the appeal of such despicable acts as these, even from the standpoint of self-aggrandizement.

So to sum up, most of us aspire to be good to all people. But even if we're selfish, throwing our lives away on a single high school quarrel by taking it out on the object of that quarrel still doesn't make any sense. Does that help clarify at all?