The article is about Pakistan’s passion for cricket and the shockwaves resulting from the terrorist attack against the Sri Lankan cricket team. But this quote is all about bored young men.
“But I wonder how many kids watching these attackers in action might think that playing Rambo in front of a world audience is more fun than a game of street cricket.”
It’s all about choices, and about which choices we perceive are available to us. While I’m not crying, “Victim! Victim!” (a free-will choice remains a free-will choice, after all) it’s a simple fact that if someone has an obvious choice in front of them, you can’t be overly surprised (or judgemental) when they take it.