What we can take from Phillips aka Dear Abby is a healthy respect for the joy that life delivers but an understanding that if you really want to giveadvice you cannot pull punches.
The British Library is also asking for advice from the public as to which websites should be preserved to givean accurate picture to future generations.
At an absolute minimum, ask them to clearly disclose to you verbally at the time they give you advice (not buried in a client agreement) when they are not acting as a fiduciary.
Health officials in Berlin, preparing for an influx of football supporters, are planning to give out 100, 000 condoms and leaflets offering men advice on safe sex.
Instead, we politely givean off-the-cuff response that often results in the kind of well-intentioned, yet irrelevant advice that was given in the example above.