EthicsI was damned if I did, and perhaps even more damned if I didn`t.
What do you do when you are friends with a couple and one 1/2 of the couple tells you that they want to dump the other?
Do you tell? Do you let the first person find the time to talk about it to their partner? Or do you try to stop the other half from continuing to get more deeply hurt?
It is one of those moral/ethical dilemas that you really have no answer for.
Reasoning it out:-
Do you tell? It is not your place to tell so you should not, but by not telling you may cause greater harm.
Do you wait? Yes, but if you wait you are betraying the friend you have in the person who is loving but not having it returned. Think of how you would feel being the "last" to know that the relationship is over.
Do you step in and stop the other person being further hurt? In this case it comes down to the doing the least harm. Yes you are betraying the trust one person put in you, is it worth losing that to save the other from harm?
I do not feel comfortable with the choice I made. I do believe that it was the path of least harm. The consequences will be felt for quite some time.
Damn him.
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how do you kill what you cant hurt? how do you scare what has no fear and no emotion? how do you let down what has no hope?
how do you stop someone who has all the above qualities?
I FREAKIN LOVE THIS GIRL ~Error-submitted
Merisa.
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1. I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow, isn't looking good either.
2. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
3. Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?
4. I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
5. Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
6. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
7. Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
8. Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
9. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again.
10. I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
11. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling?!"
12. My Reality Check bounced.
13. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
14. I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.
15. You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
16. Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
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