He was young too. Perhaps it was love, for him, as he understood it at that time.

How do you define love? Isn't the whole idea that it's beyond reason and moral?

People need to experience true risk and true loss before they develop true feeling. Before that it's all flat and simple. Of course it's hard to say if you would like someone to experience such a bad thing to gain that inside or rather want them to experience such a flat life. In my eyes not an easy choice what to wish for others.