[JillValentine]

I have repeatedly criticized the kid's actions as irresponsible, even criminal. Can you bring yourself to make the slightest criticism of the driver? Maybe he overreacted? Maybe he needs to work on controlling his temper?

Not all SUV drivers are conservatives. Lots of liberal hypocrites who talk green and clean but live gray and pollutin' also drive SUVs.

[dynoman]

"Can you bring yourself to make the slightest criticism of the driver? Maybe he overreacted? Maybe he needs to work on controlling his temper?"

Of course, I think the exact same things you do about the driver. But these people are out there, we really don't have any control over that fact do we, so the obvious course of action is to actively choose to minimize any contact with them which would include not being with a bunch of people throwing eggs at them.

"Both the kid and the driver have responsability over their actions. The kid made a bad, stupid decision. It had consequences. The driver made a worse decision that hopefully will have a consequences, if they catch him."

True. But the kid had no control over the driver's decision, that is the precise reason he should have made the smarter choice to not be with a bunch of people throwing eggs at cars.

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Once a choice is made, for instance to be with a group of "firends" throwing eggs, and eggs are thrown, the egg throwers have basically no control over the consequences of that choice, they cannot control their victim's reaction.

My dad always told us kids, "what you don't know won't hurt you - it will kill you."

This is why making good choices is critical.

Some of our young people exhibit a terrible understanding of choices and consequences. It seems many think choices are not subject to consequences or that they should be able to choose consequences. The brutal truth is that choice and the corresponding consequences cannot be disconnected. Once a choice is made you WILL suffer - or be rewarded by the consequences.

Another thing is not being honest in tracing consequences back to the primary source, the "not my fault attitude". The person this ends up really hurting is one's self. Hurting one's self is inherent in dishonesty.

Many young people should be much more serious about the choices they make.