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Ok just for a fun and lively discussion I thought we could have a nice moral debate on really tough issues.

Ok, your best friend is cheating on his girlfriend or wife.

Do you,

A) Do nothing, it's your mate, he can do what he wants, your loyalties lie with him not her.

B) Don't tell her but stress to him you are really disappointed in him and maybe even end your friendship with him over it, but you would draw the line at telling her

C) Be glad his focus is elswhere so he won't realise you've been banging his girl!

D) Warn him to stop, and if he doesn't tell his partner, Cheating is wrong no matter who does it.

E) Tell her, not because you have an upright conscience, but because you know she will be devastated and desperate for payback, and you just 'happen' to 'be there'.

Ok my own choice here is I would do absolutely nothing, its none of my business. This isn't a sexist thing though, if it was one of my girl mates and she was screwing around my loyalties would be with my girl friend. If they were BOTH really good friends of mine, I have to be honest, I'd side with the guy, sorry but that's the way I am, bro's before hoe's and all that.




Ok question 2.

The person you are closest to in the world has a lousy, miserable wench for a wife or husband who he hates.

Anyway he/she dies suspiciously and this person breaks down and confesses to you that they did it, because they were pushed over the edge. They beg you not to tell anyone.


Do you.

A) Call the police and get them arrested. They are a murderer and you have no time for scum like that.

B) Be sympathetic but tell them they MUST turn him themselves in and if not you will eventually tell the police, although you will give them some time to attempt to get away they chooses to do a runner. You will remain their friend/son/daughter/mum/dad though, and keep in contact with them in prison and help them get back on his feet if/when he finally gets out.

C) Keep your mouth shut, you're loyalties lie with this one person more than anyone else in the world. Although you won't proactively help cover their crime or testify that they were with you, you will if asked by the police tell them they were an excellent character and you would not suspect them being capable for a minute. Then if they got off, you'd both promise to bury this horrible secret for ever.

D) Tell him, 'Don't worry we are in this together, I will do my utmost to keep you out of jail and I'll do anything I can to save you. Then you would proactively try and help them get rid of evidence, provide them with an alibi etc.


Ok this one was REAL tough for me. If it was a mate, even my best one I'd lean towards option 2, because no way could I live with the guilt of knowing someone killed somebody. I couldn't have it on my conscience and I'd eventually crack and have to tell somebody.

BUT if it was my mum or my brother, shit I'd be right there with them. I really don't know what I would do. I think I would urge them to turn themselves in, because as you know I believe in God and so for their ultimate safety they had best confess it, but if for example it was in America and they faced the electric chair if found guilty, I would help them as much as possible, give them false alibi's and if all else failed try and smuggle them out of the country in the boot of my car and on a dinghy to France!


Ok so that's my answers what about you guys, where do we all sit on the moral condundrum.

Ps. I already know VD's answers will be A and D



1st one for me is B....though modfied a bit. I just got off the phone with my best friend. Known him for 8 years and I swear he's banging 3-4 different girls every week. I tell him and tell him it's not cool and he agrees, but it doesn't stop him. I don't really know Melisa all that well but I wouldn't tell her; for one I'm sure she knows as he's been caught before; for two it's not my business. But I wouldn't end a friendship over it; I have no right to judge that harshly and abandoning someone as a friend is as low as cheating on your spouse; all you can do is keep on them about it or just not pay attention.

And he's not the only guy I know; hell I don't have a friend who doesn't cheat. A guy I haven't been friendly with in a couple of years used to brag about going to church and picking up women there if his wife wasn't with him; and when I said how cold that was he said he was forgiven when he asked God each week He said he felt bad but couldn't help being so horny; seriously.


As for #2 morality question...it depends on the situation.

It wouldn't matter if it was a friend of mine or not; it all depends on who and why. Some people need killing and usually ask for it lol. Some get it for no other reason than because they were there. Case by case for me.

If I was in the car with my friend and he hit and killed someone, I would definately tell him to stop and call the police or I would.

If someone got caught stealing from my friend, or a fight got out of control due to the other person and he got snuffed, or someone got caught messing with kids, not only would I not say anything I'd probably help him clean up if not more. I'm all for damming up rivers with carcasses if they want it bad enough. Though we need laws and law enforcement; in many cases they just provide lip and janitorial services for clean up duties, and cases that deserve justice sit for years without a satisfactory conclusion. And prisons do nothing but make people worse 99.9% of the time. I say kill people. This guy here is a perfect example of needing to be erased out of the equation. You telling me you'd be so upset over this guy getting whacked you'd snitch your friend?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSB4sQGT_4
Hell, if my friend dropped somebody in most circumstances, I'd have his back, if he put that motherfukka down, I'd buy him drinks for a year & help his dispose of the body. Although that story was ridiculously sensationalized, that guy didn't even seem real, he was a cliche paedo nutjob, how the hell he's not alone in a mental institution I don't know