If indeed they do look after each other it would only be the same as you looking after a really good mate from your mess.
I don't see it that way. If you had a mate, it would be because you spent time with him and knew him to be a decent bloke, if his behaviour started to change, so might the terms of your friendship. A 'bloke in the same club as wot you are' is very different and to like him and help him regardless of whether he is derserving or responsible is a very different thing.
Not of course that I'm saying that's what masons do, because I don't know. All I know is my dad was invited to join, declined and his career stopped advancing. Coincidence? maybe.
Southside Maybe you are like the fishermen on the KGB trawlers, provided as cover and oblivious of what goes on in the forward hold
(and all the fresh fish you can eat)
