It’s our habit and inclination to look for a thread of logic in the day’s circumstance. That’s easier to do some days than others. Today it’s impossible to make any sense at all of the circumstances.

Aleksander Teimouri was the kind of young man you wanted to hang out with. He was loving, kind, generous, vibrant and attractive, with a magnetic personality. Alek’s mother, Christina Teimouri, told the Butler Eagle that her 22-year-old son went out of his way to give his time and energy helping others to get ahead. He inspired and encouraged others, she said. Alek gave freely of himself — perhaps the greatest and most sincere of all gifts.

But late on the night after Christmas, Alek Teimouri was struck down while bicycling home from his job on Rochester Road, near the Haine School Road intersection in Cranberry Township. Police said the driver who hit him was drunk.

The medical people determined Alek was brain dead before he hit the pavement. Rushed to the hospital, his body was put on life support. His organs were being harvested as recipients were being located for life-saving transplants.

It’s a way for Alek to keep on giving, and to keep on living, Christina Teimouri says.

“He walked the walk — he lived the best example of a life,” she said Thursday. “He was so kind, so generous. He picked people up. He was simply amazing.”

As producers and consumers of daily news, we all attempt to assign blame and responsibility. The struggle to do so is a natural impulse: something in human nature demands a chain of cause and effect. It’s not hard perceiving one here: the driver’s blood alcohol concentration measured 0.141 percent, well above the threshold of legal intoxication.

We grope around in intellectual darkness for familiar blanket answers. We’ll take a perfunctory stab at justice with criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits. There will be investigations and conclusions, findings and recommendations.

None of it does a thing to relieve a family’s grief. None of it alleviates the profound sense of loss. None of it settles the disturbing question about what might have become of Alek had he been allowed to continue his life of giving and caring.

Closure? We don’t see any closure.

By the same token, no combination of justice and mercy will rectify the damage done by a driver — for the record, a first-time DUI offender — whose BAC was nearly twice the state limit.

We don’t have any answers here. Maybe the candidates for the county judge vacancy could offer some suggestions. We’d like to hear them.