So, with Ben meeting Sayid in 1977, and therefore likely to at least know who Sawyer is, I'm forming an idea. Ben somehow becomes beholden to the Losties, to where he's basically forced, once he grows up, to play things out the way they do to keep them alive and make things happen again as they've already happened. Probably not because he wants to, more of a self preservation sort of thing. Thus his pissy attitude the whole time, not wanting to save the jerks who are blackmailing him, but having no other choice.
Just a hunch.
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