We try to make decisions that are favorable to us. The people who are left with a choice always matter whether the outcome of a possible decision is worth getting in trouble for. The calculation is a process that Cox, Burns and Williams had to go through when they decided to choose the life of criminals. Joining a gang is perhaps the worst decision someone can make in their life, wasting their youth on drugs, violence and hardcore living will always end badly. Being convicted of murdering four innocent people because they had the wrong address was their personal decision which turned out to be bad for them. Even if those guys hit the right house and killed the other gang members, it's still not worth going to prison and being put on death row. As a young man, Tiequon Cox had the chance to turn his life around, he was good at sports, but his behavior eliminated him from "normal" teenage life and opened him to the world of gangs. Classical theory explains that there is an availability for alternative choices, but as stated before, Cox had no one to explain it better to him when he was growing up