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What makes a good friend?

  • Written by Alexis Elder, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Good friendships seem worth celebrating. But for many of us, tensions can appear from time to time between being a good friend and doing “the right thing.” When faced with, for example, a situation where it’s tempting to lie to cover for a friend, it can seem as though...

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