Your discomfiture is quite of a piece with the sanctions of morality-and to assist friends in one of the codes of religion.
सर्वथा धर्म इत्येव द्रष्टव्यस्तव निग्रहः। वयस्थस्योपकर्तव्यं धर्ममेवानुपश्यता ॥