Financial loans between friends can harm or damage the friendship.
An ongoing debate exists over whether loans can harm friendship. Regarding this question, I totally support the saying "He lends the money and lose a friend". This is because pursuit of money can make people disregard friendships. In addition, they not take loans from a friend seriously.
To start with, while pursuing only money, most people tend to devalue the relationship between lender and creditor. In materialistic society, people believe "money talks". Let me give you an idea, according to the TIME, the number of court cases that deal with friends fighting over unpaid debts is rapidly increasing. Even they used be friends before loaning the money. After delayed repayment, they usually holds grudge against their ex-friends, and some of them swear them. This demonstrates that money between friends would lower the value of relationship, even make them fight in court.
Second reason is that some don't consider loans from friends seriously. they don't repay on time, However It's hard to say “it's time to pay off your debt" due to the fact that they don't want to damage their friendship,and they don't want to look like business-man. For example, I lent my friend about 300 bucks when I was freshman. At that time our relationship was so strong, he did not take punctuality for granted. My personality was very shy and naive, so I could not say anything. Unfortunately I haven’t got my money back since I was freshman.
To sum up, Loans from friends can result in disastrous things such as court case and losing friends. The rationale behind this is that people can disregard friendships due to their greed. What's more, some people don't think it's seriously. Considering that, I support old saying, "He that lends, gives."
-- Edited by Hanul on Sunday 5th of September 2010 11:58:13 AM
Financial loans between friends can harm or damage the friendship.
An ongoing debate exists over whether loans can harm friendship. Regarding this question, I totally support the saying "He lends the money and lose a friend". This is because pursuit of money can make people disregard friendships. In addition, they do not take loans from a friend seriously.
To start with, while pursuing only money, most people tend to devalue the relationship between lender and creditor. In (materialistic) capital society, people believe "money talks". Let me give you an idea, according to the TIME, the number of court cases that deal with friends fighting over unpaid debts is rapidly increasing. Even they used to be friends before loaning the money. After delayed repayment, they usually holds grudge against their ex-friends, and some of them swear them. This demonstrates that money between friends would lower the value of relationship, even make them fight in court.
Second reason is that some don't consider loans from friends seriously. they don't repay on time, However It's hard to say “it's time to pay off your debt" due to the fact that they don't want to damage their friendship,and they don't want to look like business-man. For example, I lent my friend about 300 dollars (bucks) when I was freshman. At that time our relationship was so strong, and he did not take punctuality for granted. My personality was very shy and naive, so I could not say anything. Unfortunately I haven’t got my money back since I was freshman.
To sum up, Loans from friends can result in disastrous things such as court case and losing friends. The rationale behind this is that people can disregard friendships due to their greed. What's more, some people don't think it's serious (ly). Considering that, I support old saying, "He that lends, gives."
