Don,
At this point I am inclined to request a sainthood for you
. I can only assume you are so measured and calculating in your life that you must never make a poor decision.
We all make 1000s of decisions everyday. If you take it to the nth degree every one of those decisions has a consequence.
Do you drink alcohol, smoke, ever run across a road without really looking, driven a little over the speed limit (or a lot), j-walked, grabbed for something hot off the stove without an oven glove
...no I guess you haven't.
I'll admit I am being a little ridiculous in my para above...but really; is the world so black and white for you?
The poor kid was texting his mates who were somewhere else in the carpark to arrange where to meet up after he had done the very fine thing of escorting some girls to their car in said carpark. He was 19...