1. Yesterday Joe Warmington, Rob Ford's chief journalist ally, said he wasn't sure if it was "illegal or immoral" to be enabler.
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2. Riffing off some wise words of @CarolineG82: Warmington is right in 1 sense: there is no rulebook for family/friends of substance abusers
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3. Family/friends of addicts find themselves in involuntary situation for which there is no easy answer: that's what causes "enabling"
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4. But there is a crucial distinction between that sort of normal enabling and Joe Warmington's situation.
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5. Warmington's relationship with Ford is not of family or friend but a professional one: journalist to politician.
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6. Warmington's enabling is professionally motivated: by being chief journalistic ally, he gets scoops no one else has.
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7. There are a couple of points where Warmington seems to have crossed a real ethical line, from being journalist to being a consigliere.
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8. There is a difference between being a criminal defense lawyer and a consigliere. Criminal defense law is a noble & necessary profession.
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9. The consigliere. is a different matter. The Consigliere is confidant, adviser, accomplice (even if he/she stays inside the law)
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10. Special moral offense of Warmington & others in Ford story is clear if we see them not as enablers but as consiglieres.
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