Q #202 from The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, PH.D.
Would you be willing to commit perjury for a close friend? For example, might you testify that he was driving carefully when he hit a pedestrian even though he had been joking around and not paying attention?
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8 comments:
Absolutely NOT if anyone was hurt. To an insurance company. Yes.
No...a real friend would understand and we would probably remain friends....
A false friend, well, I'm better off without them.
A real friend would not need me to lie for them .... a real friend would acknowldge their mistake and be willing to to deal with the consequences.
Interesting - a different standard when someone is injured than when a company is injured. Must be okay to stick it to the big bad company.
In my case, maybe Humphrey Bogart (Rick) said it best in Casablanca, "I stick my neck out for nobody".
I would not perjure myself for a friend in the wrong. I would be there for that friend in other ways.
No perjury - I will do a lot for a friend, but not go to jail for them.
No. I could never commit perjury and as others have stated, a real friend would never ask me to do so. I would, however, be there to help my friend go through whatever consequences they had to face afterwards.
I would and will not. As has been written before me, I would be there for my friend, however I would not commit perjury.
If we were truely close friends, he/she would understand that I could never commit perjury...and we would still be good friends.
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