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You're reading A friend tells you that he has committed a crime and you promise never to tell. Discovering that an innocent person has been accused of the crime, you plead with your friend to give himself up. He refuses . What should you do?
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What rubbish! Allowing someone to pay for a 'friend's' crime in unconscionable! It doesn't matter what!
by Mister Sister on March 31st, 2007
So,if it's a serious crime you think the innocent should pay? What crap!
by Mister Sister on March 31st, 2007
This is where situational ethics takes you. The relationship with a person becomes more important than ones integrity.
by Glenn Blaylock on March 31st, 2007
assuming you dont know the other person why would you break your promise and betray your friend to help a stranger?,i couldn't do that,whats the point in having friends if your willing to betray them?.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on June 27th, 2008
So, you would let an innocent person be punished in the place of a guilty person. That makes you better than the friend. You both lack honor.
by Glenn Blaylock on June 28th, 2008
No i have honor,what happens to stranger is not my problem,it's the polices job to make sure they catch the right person.In my opinion anyone who can betray a friend has no honor.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on June 29th, 2008
The police can only catch the right person if those with the necessary knowledge come forward and present it. By withholding information that could exonerate the innocent person, you are limiting the police's ability to do their job. By protecting the guilty, you become no better than him. An honorable person would not put a "friend" in such a situation in the first place nor would he let an innocent person pay for his crime. By putting your friendship with a dishonorable person above the truth and allowing an innocent person suffer for something that your "friend" did, you are proving to be just as dishonorable as he is. You can try to justify it all you want, but that is what you are telling us about yourself.
by Glenn Blaylock on July 5th, 2008
Thats your opinion my friends are more important to me than "the truth" i couldn't do that to a friend nor could i forgive a friend who did that to me.You clearly think the police are on your side when i promise you there not they only care about themselves there bonuses and there big pensions.they tell you that they will protect you but they cant make that promise,why would you testify against someone and then spend spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.I've heard what happens to "snitches" and it sounds painful.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on July 7th, 2008
All that it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing. That is what you are proposing. Doing nothing in the face of evil.
by Glenn Blaylock on July 7th, 2008
are you seriously comparing keeping a promise to a friend with the Nazi's.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on July 12th, 2008
Are you seriously telling me that maintaining a friendship with a CRIMINAL is more important than protecting innocent people from being wrongly punished for something that they did not do. Are you seriously trying to tell us that maintaining a friendship with a criminal is more important than protecting an innocent person from having his reputation ruined and his livelihood and freedom taken away? How would you feel if you were the innocent person in question here? What would your thoughts be if you were convicted of something that you did not do, were imprisoned, and had to spend the rest of your life trying to explain a criminal record every time you applied for a job and hen you found out that someone had the power to exonerate you, but they didn't because they didn't want to turn in their "friend"? Somehow, I think that you would be singing a different tune if you were the innocent victim here.
by Glenn Blaylock on July 12th, 2008
if it happened to me i'd be pissed off but i would understand there actions because i would have done exactly the same,i feel sorry for your friends as you clearly care more about your principles than your friendships.I have friends who are criminals and there just normal people and i value there friendships just as highly as my law abiding friends.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on July 14th, 2008
I feel sorry for society when I consider people like you who are not willing to protect it from criminals.
by Glenn Blaylock on July 14th, 2008
And i feel sorry when i think of all the people who consider you trustworthy,when it seems your have no problem betraying them.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on July 16th, 2008
I would say that a "friend" who does things that are damaging to the society in which I live has already betrayed me and everyone else.
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It is obvious that you and I are never going to agree on this. So let's just call it quits here.
by Glenn Blaylock on July 16th, 2008
Ok we can call it quits
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on July 16th, 2008
I would think it the other way around. Shoplifting = less damaging to society. Turning them in not as high a priority.
Murder = buttloads of damage to countless amounts of people. Turning them in is imperative.
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But if someone else is involved I would do it either way. I agree that police are a bunch of lazy fucks that care about nothing but doughnuts and money, but what Glenn says is more true. Police can only do so much without all the facts, no matter where they get them.
by King of Sexytown on September 29th, 2008
i'm glad you agree with my opion of the police but i still could'nt testify against a freind.
by BOOZE HOUND... nothing is nonsence on September 29th, 2008