<p>So last summer I met this guy who bragged about how he incurred major disciplinary actions but not going to put it on Harvard's supplement. Now he got into Harvard but it's unethical, should I stand out and do something?</p>
<p>Ethically, it’s not your responsibility to say something to Harvard. You don’t know he actually incurred major disciplinary actions and you don’t know what he actually put on the Harvard supplement. You only know what he told you.</p>
<p>You may have a moral obligation to say something if you believe he will do something that may hurt or injure someone in the future.</p>
<p>(I’m not a parent by the way.)</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I am a parent … and I couldn’t have answered it better than bigtrees above.</p>
<p>Parent here; I agree with bigtrees, for a couple of reasons.</p>
<p>First, if you rat this guy out, you could get yourself involved in a prolonged and ugly dispute situation, which may or may not get him booted anyway. Don’t do that to yourself.</p>
<p>Second and more important: if it’s true that he lied his way into Harvard, then he will eventually get what’s coming to him. Maybe not from Harvard, but somewhere along the way, lying always catches up to a liar. They spin a web that gets more and more complicated and they end up snaring themselves. So put it out of your mind and go about your business, assured in the knowledge that someday justice will come.</p>
<p>The exception, as bigtrees also noted, is if someone is being endangered. Then it is your responsibility to speak up. Not the case here.</p>
<p>What do <em>you</em> think you should do?</p>
<p>Make this none of your business bestswimmer. Because, in all due respect, it’s really not.</p>
<p>I’m reading “The Oxford Murders” which involves a couple of mathematicians trying to figure out “Whodunnit”. One professor observes that a lie complicates not just the present but also the future as one has to figure out all the permutations of the consequence of the lie and, at some point, it is impossible to do so. </p>
<p>If OP is female, be aware of the possibility that the braggart was trying to impress. He might be thinking that the female gender might go for a “bad boy” persona and thus he verbally inflated a tossed water balloon to some greater naughtiness. The best revenge, then, is to be massively underwhelmed. (Actually it could also be that OP might be a male athlete and the braggart might have been feeling desperately inadequate in comparison). Again, being massively underwhelmed is sufficient revenge.</p>