2007年11月9日 星期五
what would you do?
What would you choose? Friendship or conscience? It confused me for a long time. If there was a person who wants you to give him some information about your friend in order to report to police because he did something illegal, what would you do? I don’t know the answer actually. First, I know nothing about the person. I don’t want to help him to tell the police that my friend is a criminal. Second, who knows if he was lying at me? I think I need to protect myself and my friend’s safety. But, if what he said is true that my friend defrauded him of something, what should I do? Do I have to be honest and tell him my friend’s name and phone number? If you are in the same situation, what would you do?
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You've asked a thought-provoking ethics question. The problem with the rest of your post, however, is that it is far too vague to allow the reader to make a choice. The only substantial information you give in that a stranger asked you for your friend's name and phone number because, he claimed, your friend defrauded him.
That's just not enough for anyone to make an ethical decision. I wouldn't tell a stranger anything personal about my friend unless I knew that my friend was a criminal and had actually done what the stranger had claimed.
It is, as you say, possible that the stranger was lying to [not at] you and simply wanted your friend's number to commit some criminal act against him or her.
I would refuse to give the stranger any information but would ask the stranger for his or her name and phone number. Then I'd check with my friend to see what he or she had to say about this stranger's claim.
But without telling us, your readers, what the alleged crime was, your question cannot be answered more specifically than that.
What do you think? Is your friend the type of person who defrauds other people? What kind of fraud was it?
Can you appreciate how frustrating your post is? When you don't give details, you might as well not say anything.
If I were the person, I will pretend that i do not know everything. I don't want to betray my friends; therefore i choose not to know everything.
I think people will forgive someone if he/she won't make the same mistakes.If he/she did it again, i will tell the police!
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