Try reading it again, this time without reducing a persons life into a bullet-point list of what he did and didn't do. As other replies are pointing out — it's the whole situation from day one that creates a situation like that if Chris'. If you think you can solve that by saying its because of laziness, you really ought to read up on how people have been made to change throughout history: by being given a fair chance to succeed. How many times have you risen from the ashes, yourself?