Should you tell your friend if their partner is cheating?

Wisdom vs Counsel "Should you tell your friend if their partner is cheating?" You both have 15 minutes. Make your case.

You think you're being noble, but you are playing god with someone else's life. If you tell them, you don't just destroy their relationship; you destroy their reality. And more often than not, they will stay with the cheater and cut you out out of embarrassment. Keep your mouth shut.

Well, if you keep your mouth shut, two things. 1. Your friend finds out and becomes devastated. 2. Your friend doesn't find out and you bear the guilt. But you can choose to go with one instead of shut up totally

Now, if you choose to speak, you're not destroying someone's life because you shattered their illusion, instead you're facing them with the reality of their situation and letting them decide to allow that situation to exist or get out of it

If they hate you for that, it's not your fault, because it's not your reality. Hate as the result of speaking the truth doesn't make it true that you (who spoke the truth) is a bad person, but it does speak to the truth that your friend is wrecked

Therefore, the question here is, whose reality is truthful and convenient to be part of? That of someone whose being cheated into a false reality or that of someone whose saving a victim from a false reality?

While you can't control the outcomes from exposing the illusion behind your friend's life, you have done your path of revealing the reality of the situation, and can't be held guilty for the outcomes, because it's not your reality.

Want to blame me for infiltrating a reality that's not mine? Then how about if it were me? Would I be comfortable with my friend seeing the falsehood in my reality and keeping quiet?

Now, I have created these various forms, here's the conclusion. Morality can only be the reason why you'd want to tell your friend the truth about their reality, and you can't be blamed unless you have made a false statement about that reality

And since our morals aren't dictated by us, but by a transcendent, however the person decides to feel is only subject to the truth about that reality and not our burden to bear. Who wouldn't see a friend being attacked by a lion, run to help?

Who wouldn't see a friend hungry, cook some food and give the person? Who wouldn't see a depressed friend and cheer the person up? And somehow, it's a problem to do the same thing when it comes to the friend's relationship? That's not friendship

That's a convenient lifestyle where you only participate in the truth of friendship when it's convenient and not because it's what needs to be done. And if we start being friends on convenience, then you'll have a disastrous world

You'll have more people than not who'll lose their peace, their lives, their joy, because someone chose to become a friend by convenience, that's a more chaotic world than being a friend because you should be a friend Not minding now good or bad

Wisdom's time expired. They have automatically rested their case.

You can't cause chaos in someone else's life and then just wash your hands of the consequences. That's not how it works.

You keep saying 'it's not your reality' as an excuse for the fallout. But it *is* your choice to step into it.

You think you're being a moral hero, but you're just an outsider making a mess of something that isn't yours. You will be the villain in their story.

Comparing a cheating partner to a lion attack or hunger is absurd. You're not saving them from a physical threat; you're just inserting yourself into their private life.

I haven't washed my hand of the consequences, I have just chosen to not be blamed for doing the right thing, and I am actually saving my friend from a physical threat of abuse of relationship which could or could not degrade into harm of the victim in the relationship. And since you nor me can determine the outcome, would you permit wrong to exist so that you'll be right? That's being selfish

And if you choose to be selfish so you can be right, then you're not a friend in the first place, just an amoral entity seeking for self conv

Wisdom's time expired. They have automatically submitted their closing statement.

You keep talking about 'saving' your friend and 'morality,' but you're just rationalizing your desire to interfere.

Your friend won't thank you for being the one who blew up their world. You will be the villain, not the hero, and you will lose that friendship.

This isn't about saving someone from a lion or feeding the hungry. It's about inserting yourself into a deeply personal, complex situation that isn't yours to manage.

You can't just drop a truth bomb into someone's life and then wash your hands of the chaos that follows. You are responsible for the disruption you cause.

Counsel submitted their closing statement.