Current Events > Your friend says something reprehensible to another person.

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You and your friend are hanging out at the bar and he meets an old classmate. They both have beef. They begin arguing, and your friend says something absolutely reprehensible and disgusting. Absolutely classless. Let's say, for all intents and purposes, he brings up the classmate's deceased mother.

A fight breaks out and the bargoers pull you apart. Eventually, you two head outside. Your friend has cooled down, and asks what you think of what just happened.

What do you do? Defend his actions, or condemn them?
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Depends on their history and who starts it, but I'd probably tell him/her that it's probably not worth the time and effort to argue with the person anyway.

Number090684 posted...

Depends on their history and who starts it, but I'd probably tell him/her that it's probably not worth the time and effort to argue with the person anyway.

Your friend started the fight by bringing the dead loved one into the argument. Before that, it was heated, but civil.
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I walk away

as a permanent full time professional victim, i will selectively not acknowledge they have said the reprehensible things they said and defend them.

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ModLogic posted...

as a permanent full time professional victim, i will selectively not acknowledge they have said the reprehensible things they said and defend them.

Good point. You may be able to use this information later on if you ever get into an argument with this person as well, then your friend could defend it. Maybe defend it as a joke? That's a good defense!
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16-BITTER posted...

It really depends on my relationship to the old classmate.

If it was just some rando I'd think it was out of line, but if I also had beef with said classmate I'm probably backing my dude.

I also think "bringing up someone's dead mother" is comparatively light on the scale of reprehensability (?).

I also think this is a poor abstraction of a current situation you're trying to compare it to.

I'm not comparing it to anything, my man. Any likeness to events or people living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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