Say it isn't so, Santa Clause!

I have to report on a situation that has transfixed my memory of a friend for a good while. I have a friend who when faced with a situation that involved a sin or an embarrassment did not join in our activities.  In fact, he ran away from us.  I thought for some time that his acheivement was a beautiful example of how you must "run from sin".  Indeed this is true.  But there is culpability.  If you know that there is sin in the future and you run away leaving others to be in that situation, you discriminate against the sinner by telling him that you are guiltfree but that you do not want to stop him from doing what he is going to do.  I personally believe my friend did no major disservice to my friendship by not indicating to myself that there was indeed wrongdoing ahead when he fleed from our company.  But that said, there are those who are uneducated and unaware of the sins of life and you do have an obligation to confer at least by a shaking of the head that you are in disagreement.  This friend did not shake his head.  So in my thoughts, he is indeed guilty of aiding and abetting the unscrupulous deed at hand.  To just run away may mean you are going to the bathroom or that you are running away from your fears that you might take pleasure in the sinful act.  You run to avoid sin, not to keep yourself from learning your own proclivity for sin.