"Your friend's enemy is your own enemy" - Explain and/or prove this saying correct.?

Question

Play Devil's Advocate if you have to...

Answer 1

Nothing can be proven with this because the statement is opinion.  However, human beings interact in groups and define membership by social structure.  We view those outside of the group as 'enemies' and those within as 'friends'.

Answer 2

Locked inside a cage in a fight to death, would you with-hold a knife  from your friend against his enemy?  Is that clear enough?

Answer 3

That saying is life damaging... since it can only add to the discord. A friend will help bring peace, not more war.

Answer 4

my friends are not men who acquire enemies . if one one of them has an enemy then that enemy is the attacker - and you are right then my friends enemy is my enemy as i will stand no unprovoked attack on my kind. My friends patterns of belief will be similar to mine he too will be peaceful and slow to anger but savage when cornered - if the enemy comes along he will be fighting not one but multiple cornered bears all convinced of their right to viciously defend violence against their kind.  

for debate ( and devils advocacy ) to prove the opposite you would have to assert my friends would instigate unprovoked attack and provoke enmity and by doing so you insult them and by inference you thus insult me. if you pushed it i would then, tongue in cheek,  refer you to the "multiple cornered bears" section of the proof

Answer 5

You can use the analogy : " the enemy of my enemy is my friend-"

In other words - which camp you are in needs to have a formula for how you are going to show loyalty to your own camp and distrust the ones in the camp of the others.

All for one and one for all is better used with 4 people or less!

Answer 6

sorry but the Bible says love your neighbor love your enemy so i cant prove it . take care . hope i was able to help .

Answer 7

I think it suggests that you an your friend are supposed to be "one"(if you know what I mean; you both have similar interests etc....) and if he doesn't like someone, it would go against the whole point of your friendship if you liked that person.

I dunno if that helped