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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (58959)	9/19/2002 3:47:26 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It's not blind loyalty. It's doing the right thing when you know someone is being unfairly maligned.

To: jlallen who wrote (58959)	9/19/2002 4:44:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 82486

Loyalty to those who assist you when you are unfairly attacked is but one of those principles and while important, certainly not the most important.... I agree with that. I think it's admirable to repay those who assist you when you are unfairly attacked. At question, in my mind, is the form of the repayment. As suitable repayment might be to assist them when they are unfairly attacked. The operative word is "unfairly." If the attack in your judgment is not unfair, or only partially unfair, or provoked, or has other extenuating circumstances, then I think would be quite wrong to jump in to assist. Out of deference to a friendship, the best thing to do might be to refrain from jumping in on the other side and simply to take a pass. Just because our friends think they are being treated unfairly and we owe them a debt, it doesn't mean that they were treated unfairly and that this is the time for repayment.