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[adrienmundi]

Assume you have a friend who continues on making a very bad mistake. You see this, and the price the mistake extracts from your friend, and many with whom your friend comes into contact with. However, you suspect/know that your friend can not only not stand to be wrong, but is probably working very hard not to see this mistake, for fear of the consequences such knowledge might bring. You have every reason to suspect that, if you force your friend to confront this issue, it will cost you the friendship, at the very least. But the damage, to your friend and others, keeps growing. What do you do?

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[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Confront them, balanced with the cost their mistake is enacting on themselves and others vs. the potential loss. If they go on their way, it's their mistake to learn. If it hurts you or others directly and overtly, then back off and watch out for your (other) friends who might be getting hurt.

Also, accept that your own perception of a situation may be flawed.
Even out of the things I could possibly guess this is, I don't have a direct opinion, so I tried to be as generally applicable as possible.

[adrienmundi]

Assuming this is based in reality, as opposed to a general ethical dilemma, you likely do know that to which I (obliquely) refer.

And while on one hand I'd like to be wrong about this, if the issue that I might see might not be the source of the damage being inflicted, what does that say then? Or, without an "excuse", is the damage any more or less able to be accepted and dealt with?

[thewonderfuller.livejournal.com]

i agree with scottopic. the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.