At a 1965 Ann Arbor Teach-In ...Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) President Paul Potter, asked his audience, "How will you live your life so that it doesn't make a mockery of your values?" Ayers later wrote in his memoir, Fugitive Days, that his reaction was: "You could not be a moral person with the means to act, and stand still. [...] To stand still was to choose indifference. Indifference was the opposite of moral."

It seems selective indifference grows to a unrestrained level when thinking that the 'end justifies the means' ...and that a rationale to justify actions is similar to an immature child who claims "He did it first!"