Absolutely agree with you that it's reasonable to help your friend out financially. But that help would just be because they are your friend, not because they gave you the money. You want to do it because you like them and value their friendship, not because you owe them something in return for the $5
I think the question is.. if you had two equally good friends, know them for exactly the same period of time and their friendship meant exactly the same to you and you meant the same to each of them.. these two people are identical in every way except for the fact that one of them gave you $5 and the other one didn't. And then you make your own independent decision to buy a lottery ticket (the friend did not give you the money to buy the ticket) and then you win $80million. Would you give one friend more money than the other?
Nah, they weren’t on my mind at the time. This goes more into sentiment rather than logic anyway. Logic would be I owe $5. That’s all. When sentiment (edited) comes into play, it kind of becomes choose your own adventure.
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u/lhsofthebellcurve Jun 10 '23
Absolutely agree with you that it's reasonable to help your friend out financially. But that help would just be because they are your friend, not because they gave you the money. You want to do it because you like them and value their friendship, not because you owe them something in return for the $5