Someone in the writers room or anyone really should have been upfront with Tim Minear and said this:
What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point; in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that can be considered a rational thought.
You know that summer Owen became a lifeguard, and he saved that first person, it was like saving Tyler. And that’s where he got hooked. He has been chasing the high of saving his little brother ever since.