Monday, May 02, 2005

Relationships, Friendships & Ethics

James and John have been best of friends for a long time. James has got girlfriend who’s Helen. John and Helen are friends. James is cheating on Helen, and he told John in confidence. John then went behind James’ back to tell Helen.

Is John in the right telling Helen about James’ infidelity?
Who is he first liable to? James his best friend or Helen, James’ girlfriend who has become John’s friend over time?
Will you shop your friend to his girlfriend/boyfriend just to protect another friend?
What role do ethics play in this situation?

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

dis is a dodgy area, the thing is u dont wanna b messing wiv other people's relationship. John was wrong telling her because James told her in confidence, but then again if Helen knew John knew, she'll be pissed at him init, but since James was John's friend in the first place, John is bang out of order chatting to Helen about his infidelity

5:49 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ive been in this predicament b4, wer some girl i liked started gng out wiv some bredrin of mine. even though it hurt because i felt i was der first, my bredrin didnt really treat her as good as I will have, it even hurt me more because i would hav done a better job. so wen my bredrin and i go out and he's chirsping girls even though he's got a girlfriend, im always gng back to his girlfriend and showing her all what he's up to, which is betraying him as my friend. but i actually liked her and i cared about her and i wanted her so see that he was no good for her. so to some point i felt obliged to let her know all this information

5:52 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FROM EXPERIENCE, DONT SAY ANYTHING TO ANYONE, TRUST ME, BARE GUYS ARE SNITCHES, EVEN YOUR SO CALLED "BREDRINS". PEOPLE THINK ITS ONLY GIRLS THAT CHAT, BOYS CHAT AS WELL, THEY JUST TRY DO IT ON THE SLY AND I WONT BE SURPRISED IF JOHN LIKED HELEN BECAUSE BETRAYING UR FRIEND IS JUST WRONG

5:58 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a girl, i would think it was loyal of John telling me about what my man is being up to. Being played is not a very good thing. We need more guy like John who stand up for the truth

7:08 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

bollocks! y would u want a friend who snitches u to ur guy, defies the "manly protocols". any guy caught doing that should b ashamed of himself, selling his friend off to some girl. No girl should b allowed to come b/w two friends!

7:29 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

guys do snitch and i really take those kind of blokes for faggots bcos as a man ur bredrin cheating is got nothing to do wit you only dat his jealous and probably his got no game

9:10 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

dats loose, snitching ur bredrin!

10:55 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i dont see anything wrong in John telling Helen about James cheating, after all, he's Helen's friend as well

2:43 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tru say he shudnt have snitched but bare of u onez sayin snitchin is loose tink bout it if u wos propa feelin sum 1 n dere man wos playin her wudnt u tell her so u cud b wid her?
wud u b a snitch den?

5:33 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You have to just stay out of it. You don't want to betray your friend or leave Helen in the dark. However, it is really none of your business and you should let the two of them sort it out.

11:44 pm  

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