Competitive Lifestyle Syndrome

A constant issue among humans where a lot of bad decisions are because the person committing them want to look, be, or act better than the people around them.
Competitive Lifestyle Syndrome can also apply to a person's private lifestyle, such as sexual pleasures or general passions and beliefs.

1: Jeff's a pedophile, we found him with a 14 year old girl. That's why we're not hanging out with him anymore.
2: What the fuck, why would he risk his entire social life just for sexting children?
1: It's some competitive lifestyle syndrome bullshit I don't get.

3: Head of the Sponge Activist Group is trying to take sponges off of the market shelves again.
4: You're kidding me, why the hell do we need a "Sponge Activist Group"?
3: Competitive lifestyle syndrome.