<p>Pretty much. Even when MosbyMarion and Mifune were being reasonably civil, someone would enter and be like “all religious people are morons!” or “atheists are evil scumbags!”</p>
<p>^^ as far as that goes, of course we don’t always do the thing that will make us happiest - otherwise we’d never regret anything. In the case where someone forfeits their lives to save a friend or loved one, I think there can still be an element of cost benefit analysis (albeit on a very instinctive level) involved. The split second thinking could be “this person will die, and that will scar me for the rest of my life” followed by a decision on how to stop that from happening, with the only solution being to fall on the grenade. Is this decision most conducive to long term benefit? Of course not, because you can’t have any benefit once you’re dead, and the situation just sucks all around. It could be considered, however, a decision that limits the negative effects of something, with the result of a friend dying being at that moment the worst conceivable outcome of any event.</p>