If your instinct is "never", you're actually wrong on this one. Think, for instance, about a situation in which your friend wants to take his shirt to the dry cleaner's. But the business he wants to go to has a notorious reputation for ruining people's clothes or losing them. Would you let your friend go to that business?
Today's section illustrates two different ways of going about a situation like the aforementioned one.
The first one is to warn your friend that the reputation of the dry cleaner's is spotty, and that it would be "naive to dismiss out of hand what one has heard people say" (81).
The second opinion is to encourage your friend just to check out the business and its reputation simply because it's the wise thing to do. This way you don't suggest anything about the business owners or run the risk of spreading a rumor.
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