“If you do something that is really stupid or lethal, and you don’t notice… a friend is -not- the one who overlooks this in order to chart a stable course. That’s the -opposite- of a friend. Especially if this thing you are doing is a habit. And even more so if it involves the specific topic I am here discussing, which is the basic and utterly wrongminded idea that friends agree with you. Get me?”

— an anonymous informant