Some people just hope for the better of others. I don't know how everyone else lives, but they might have lived the kind of life that afforded that kind of luxury and carefree attitude, while people like you and I know more realistically that there's nothing we can do.

[He's getting a more gentle head ruffle this time.]

But don't blame them, okay? That's the sort of innocence you're supposed to have when you're not in the situations I am. They probably won't budge on their moral codes anytime soon anyway, so you've just gotta deal with it and remind them the rational reasons of why we can't choose one person over everyone else.