Is this family in jeopardy b/c of brother's actions (scenario)?

Question

I have this friend we will call John. He has a brother we will call Billy. John is in his mid-20s & Billy is 18. John lives by himself and Billy lives at home with his parents & 5 of his younger brothers & sisters in the suburbs. Billy made some friends & started getting into some trouble selling "substances". The substances were being purchased on a regular basis from a seller, but have since then stopped. Not only did Billy go to the seller, but so did some of his acquaintances. One of Billy's acquaintances still visits the seller for purchases. Billy's acquaintance knows where Billy and his parents live. The last purchase made by Billy about 3 months ago was for $400, only $100 of which was put down as down payment, so $300 is still owed. The following month after the purchase, not only did the seller contact Billy asking for the money, but so did the seller's seller. However, there has been no word for the last two months. If Billy told John about this, should John tell his family?

Answer 1

John should definitely tell his family. What if someone were looking for "billy" and one of his younger brothers or sisters were hurt in the process? John would have to take some of the blame for knowing and not saying anything.

Answer 2

Have you ever heard the saying "there is no honor among thieves"? Well, that's what John needs to understand. These guys are the best of buddies when they're getting you hooked...but, as soon as you cheat them in some way, you are first on their hit list. Unfortunately I, too, had a son like 'Billy', believe me...the family needs to know...

Answer 3

in the alien scenario, if I observed all this in front of my own sober, wakeful eyes, i might have confidence it replaced into real. i've got been noted as a sprint strange, yet i don't have psychotic episodes to think of a few thing like that. i might share the journey with my people, checklist it to the right government and do a sprint prognosis of comparable activities. in the God scenario, the notice "incontrovertibly" is the foremost. The journey might must be as obtrusive as in the alien scenario. God might desire to look previously me in a very unambiguous way while i'm wakeful, sober and thinking needless to say. If that befell, i might have confidence what I observed replaced into real. yet that has on no account befell to me, i don't think of it ever will, and people who say some thing like that has befell to them sound like crackpots. it rather is why I proceed to be and unbeliever. As for that's lots greater probable, i think of the existence of extraterrestrial beings is lots greater probable than the existence of God. The existence of extraterrestrial beings demands in basic terms that different sensible being exist in the very massive actual universe we additionally inhabit. The existence of God demands an entire different divine realm of certainty for which there is not any empirical help.

Answer 4

Yes the family is in jepardy. this is what happend with that young drug dealer named " Jesse james hollywood" (America's most wanted) one of the guys didnt pay up so they killed his compeltely innocent younger teenage brother and threw his body off a cliff. this Billy character should be ashamed of himself for putting his family's lives in jepordy and selling drugs.

Answer 5

I think John should tell his parents, and let them deal with it. The kids don't need to know.

Answer 6

Of course he should tell his family. Drug dealers shoot everybody in sight when they show up to collect. Little kids, old people, whoever. They need to know they are in danger.

Answer 7

The parents, yes, immediately.

Answer 8

No'because it will end.