In high school, my best friend and I sat right next to each in math class. For the class final we had a very hard test. My friend wasn’t prepared for the test and asked if he could copy down my answers so he could get a good grade.
B: Help my best friend get a good grade on the exam
D: Help my best friend cheat on the exam
A: Do what is best for my best friend
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C: Be an honorable person and do the right thing
D': Do the right thing and be honorable and do not let him cheat off me
In order to Do what is best for my best friend I must Help my best friend get a good grade on the exam and in order to Help my best friend get a good grade on the exam I must Help my best friend cheat on the exam. But, in order to Do what is best for my best friend I must also Be an honorable person and do the right thing and in order to Be an honorable person and do the right thing I must Do the right thing and be honorable and do not let him cheat off me. I can't both Help my best friend cheat on the exam and Do the right thing and be honorable and do not let him cheat off me.
| Relation | Assumption(s) | Injection(s) |
| D-D' | 1. If i help my friend cheat on the exam, I am not an honorable man. 2. If I do not help my friend cheat, i may lose a best friend in the process. | If my best friend would have just studied the night before he would have never needed to put me in this situation. |
| B-D | 1. He did not study at all and if he tries by himself, he is gonna fail the test and the class. 2. I want to be a good best friend and help him out. | In the future my friend should have known weeks in advance this test was going to hard, so he could have gotten a tutor. |
| C-D' | 1. If i allow him to cheat off me, i may allow other things like this to slide in the future. 2. By making my friend not cheat, he may learn in the future to do the right thing as well. | By teaching him cheating is not the right thing to do, he may learn and never cheat again. |
| A-B | 1. My best friend passing the class is what is best for him. 2. If he fails the test, he has to repeat 12th grade. | Making my friend repeat 12th grade again may be so bad for his ego, he may just drop out, so helping him was big. |
| A-C | 1. My friend will learn from this experience and become a better person. 2. He will never have to cheat on an exam ever again. | If he learns how to be a honorable man from this experience, he could develop better skills down the road. |