is this to teach us a lesson on cherishing people and never taking advantage of them? Living each day as though there may never be a tomorrow?

There are good lessons to learn from our experiences, for sure.

Because from what I see, the WAS have often indicating feeling abandoned, depressed, some of them are alcoholic's. While an A is never justified, I think often it is a cry out for something...the WAS last resort and sometimes in some cases...the end result of years of frustration.

Its origination being problematic doesn't negative the silver lining we can draw from the outcome, for our part. For their part, it oughtta be a wake up call that growth and maturity and better ways of handling their crisis is warranted.