The Enemy of my Enemy is My Friend

United States
February 9, 2008 12:45am CST
Does anyone really do this anymore? I never could wrap my head around the logic in this. If I don't like someone, then it is simply that, I don't like them. I don't care if they were friends with someone I didn't like more, Mother Teresa, or broke bread with Jesus himself. If I don't like you, you know I don't like you and I would never go out of my way to become a friend to someone you are friends with for any reason. What is the purpose of this type of behavior? Someone explain it to me like I'm a five year old.
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@devilsangel (1817)
• United States
10 Feb 08
Frankly I have no freaking clue. If I don't like a person I try to avoid them not be friends with people close to them. I guess its more like spy games or something who knows. As far as the heading to your topic.. the whole the enemy of my enemy is my friend thing.. thats pretty simple.. they have a common bond of not liking someone so they then join up and become friends because now they can dislike that person or group together. Kinda like China and Iraq becoming chummy cause they both hate the US. Best way I could put that one. But what you're talking is someone who stops being friends with you just because you're friends with someone they dislike. At that point that person is being extremely childish and needs to grow the hell up.
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@SViswan (12051)
• India
10 Feb 08
lol...I can't do that because I have no clue. There's this lady who stays in the same apartment complex as I do...and she was on talking terms with her immediate neighbour...till she realizes that the neighbour is friends with another neighbour who she had a fallout with...and bam! suddenly this immediate neighbour is invisible.....we call it the 'enemy by association' theory...lol Even the kids (including her own) know better than that. It's too silly to even break my head about! If you do find out the reason, do let me know.
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