Mind's Eye Re: Friendship

The ultimate would be to sacrifice your life for a friend/child/love/
stranger. What about the law- being an accessory to a crime. Might be
like a poker game and knowing when to hold and when to fold. Also
consider if sin/grace are applicable to conscience/behavior. What
about the courage to stand alone? Maybe one has the wrong friends.Also
consider the influence of money and sex. Also the matter of what's
acceptable in war and not in civilian life or how certain acts are
justified- abortion is okay but killing a pregnant woman is double
homicide- when did that fetus assume human status? Is loving adultery
holier than a hellish, brutal marriage? Etc, etc., etc.

On May 2, 12:42 pm, "pol.science kid" <r.freeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seemed as though my 'minds' life was dead.. but i was just doing
> this term paper on Aristotle and Derrida on friendship and a question
> came to me... .. i came across something that Cicero said i think..
> that it is the law that one should not ask a friend for an unlawful
> thing... or that wrong doing done for a friend is not excused, now the
> Greeks were a little tough on virtue.. and i quite agree with them..
> but for most us i think it would be difficult to determine whether a
> thing is moral or immoral.. in more subtle cases in mean.. how do you
> decide whether refusing to do an immoral thing for the sake of your
> friend is really out of conscience or is it cowardice in the time of
> problem.. is it a test of friendship?.... They say that one loves one
> friend like one's self then would one punish one's friend like one
> would one's self?Or is it that it is absolute and blind love that will
> make one do anything for the sake of a friend... for example if our
> friend committed a crime... this is just one example.. you guys can
> think of lots others... Also would one think of troubling a friend
> when one finds ones' self in a moral dilemma ... would one expect much
> from them and think them traitor if they don't take our sides...
> please feel free to add more thoughts to this.. and do say what you
> think..

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