We try to make decisions that are favorable to us. People who have a choice always matter if the outcome of a possible decision is worth getting into trouble for. Calculation is a process that Cox, Burns and Williams had to go through when they decided to choose the thug life. Joining a gang is probably the worst decision a person can make in their life, wasting their youth on drugs, violence and the hardcore life will always end badly. People being found guilty of murdering four innocent people because they had the wrong address was a personal decision that turned out to be bad for them. Even if these guys hit the right house and killed the other gang members, it's still not worth going to prison and being placed on death row. Tiequon Cox, a younger man, had the chance to change his life, he was good at sports, but his behavior removed him from "normal" teenage life and opened him up to the world of gangs. Classic theory explains that there are alternative choices, but as previously stated, Cox had no one to tell him better when he was growing up.