Meaning, he DIDN'T know how to play the game...
You can't play the game based on emotions and fallacies like love, loyalty, respect, honour and etc...These fallacies are subjective social constructs and have been changing in meaning with the evolution of human society...
Therefore, EVERY decision made based on love, respect, honour and dignity is inherently illogical based on the premise that love, respect, honour and dignity are fallacious human social construct...
Decisions should be made based on health and wealth...When you have a problem, the first goal is to decide how any interventions is going to affect your health, and second, how it is going to affect your wealth...
If health and wealth do not factor in, then the problem you are facing is NOT that serious, and thus, you are better off NOT getting involved...
In 99.9% of the times, emotions are USELESS, they only confuse people and stop them from doing what they already know needs to get done...