Demolishing buildings...in Style

A few days ago, our English class had to read a short story called The Destructors and it was written by Graham Greene during the 1950's. The Destructors was about how these children who were raised in Post World War 2-Germany and the lifestyles they lead. After the Blitzkrieg in Germany, many houses were destroyed which caused the people to live in poor conditions after the incident. I feel as though this is the back story to Greene's story and more than likely, it is. So these kids, most likely pre-teens around 15 judging from their actions, form a gang and grow up in a relatively destroyed area. However, they come in contact with a beautiful house and I guess they're just shocked to see it because they've probably never seen one before. Trying to make a name for their gang, they decide to destroy the historical house which is absolutely ridiculous if you ask me. The story says that they had no motivation for destroying the house- that they just did it for fun, however, my friend managed to convince me that there probably was a "reason" as to why they did what they did. He told me something called the Broken Window theory. Basically, it means that people who grow up in relatively broken areas, such as broken windows on houses, tend to commit more crimes than those who grow up in relatively clean and unbroken areas. So by applying this theory, these kids that more than likely lived in poor areas saw a house that wasn't broken and was kept relatively beautiful and decided to destroy it. The destroying of the house reminded me of a game called Rampage and it was an arcade game made in the late 1980's. There wasn't really a plot to the game, but the style of the game was relatively similar to The Destructors. In the game Rampage, the players pick between three different characters: A gorilla called George, a Dinosaur-lizard called Lizzie, or a Werewolf called Ralph. The players then destroy cities while trying to avoid getting hit by helicopters and other destructive weapons. Although Rampage is quite large scaled compared to The Destructors, they're both similar. The players in Rampage would represent the children from the short story, and the cities the creatures were destroying would represent the beautiful house.