well, it is not only inhumane to watch a man slowly kill himself, but if you are an employee, also against your enlightened self interest. After all, how many of those hangers-on have jobs today?
of course i would out myself as an intellectual to point out that it is a mostly classic prisoner’s dilemma, where all of them would benefit from a certain course of action, but there are incentives holding back each individual. At the very least one of them should have gone into michael’s rolodex and found janet jackson’s number and said, “sweetie, your brother is killing himself. can you find the people who made you normal and have them pay him a visit?”
Okay maybe that’s not the most tactful way to put it, but you get the idea.
Ultimately those who never heard someone say no, do so because they are immature. i am a lawyer. i have to tell my clients what they don’t want to hear all the time. and the mature ones appreciate that, indeed seek it out.
