BAD vs. GOOD

[Alexis Fernandez]

If you wanted to rebel and your friends began planning to, but at the same time, you realized that your reactions were silly and you go to warn the people that the rebel is against, does that make you a traitor????

[Eystein,]

...or a wistleblower? O_o Depends on what kind of rebel I suppose...

[Alexis Fernandez]

well rebel really isnt the proper word. just that everyone sat around talking about how something should be done to fix it. but then realizing nothing needed fixing, and telling on the people who were getting ready to fix the thing in the completely wrong way

[Captain Jacqui Sparrow]

Sounds like a situation very familiar to me regarding an internet flame war that got exceptionally ugly. D: I don't think it counts as betraying your cause. You can still support the cause but not the methods used to get the result.

[Alexis Fernandez]

Well it's like we were all mad and then I stopped and went "wait, what's the problem? why are we mad?" I have abolsutely no idea...

[Eystein,]

Hmm, sounds to me you've done a good thing. Issues are seldom solved through anger, at least not after an extended period of time has passed. It becomes all weird and will missfire, especially if everyone has forgotten why they are angry, but still somehow is... ;)

[Nathanael Thompson]

It depends on the point of view.  To your friends, yes, you would have committed a traitorous act by warning the potential victims of said rebellion.  To yourself, you would be staying true, which would make you the opposite of a traitor. Unless, of course, you ratted on your friends for money.  In which case, you become a traitor to your values and your friends.  At that point the people who have not been betrayed are the potential rebellion victims.

 

Morality is a tricky thing.  The right choice is seldom blessed with clarity, and can lead to difficult, occasionally painful consequences.  Often you have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.  Only you can decide for yourself what's right though, because right and wrong are completely subjective ^^

[Alexis Fernandez]

Well at this point they are only 2 people left who are being buttheads about the nonproblem. No one knows that I was a "traitor" except for two people who were present and are agreeing that the drama should stop. I was just women enough to go ahead and do what everyone was just only talking about doing

[Nathanael Thompson]

I lol'd at "woman enough".  Really, today, and the past week has been hard and that put a smile on my face when I needed one.  So thanks for that ^^.  Also, I totally thought this was a hypothetical situation, but now I'm curious.  What exactly is it against that you are rebelling?

[Alexis Fernandez]

drama. literally. I'm in theatre at my school. It's the senior's last show. People didn't like the show that was picked (I didn't either, but only because it was putting such a negative affect on everyone) Some people who think they are in charge wanted to take it too far. I thought that was stupid, because most of the anger was built off of inferences and rumors, so I went to our director to ask what the real story was.

[Nathanael Thompson]

Well maybe, as a group, you could ask to change to a different show? (btw stuff is bound to happen when you have a bunch of entitled dramatic people thrown together for too long)

 

unfortunately no eloquent quotes this time. just get everything out in the open. "Because of rebellion, the LORD’s people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground. ¹³ Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the LORD’s people?”--Daniel 8:12-13

 

oh lookie, a quote! ^^

[Alexis Fernandez]

your now my new quote man. whenever I need some cliche words of wisdom, or just something humorous to laugh at, I'll just come to quote man.

 

anyway, we can't change the show. In fact, auditions are tomorrow.

[spiderboenz]

Id it's stupid and nothing needs fixed... Tell the wannabe rebels that it is stupid and nothing needs done.