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Law Enforcement in my area aren’t bothering with those kind of calls . Those people who snitch will quickly become the gossip of the town of neighbors to avoid.
I can't stand the word snitches, but my guess is that they did not have their views challenged enough or they were encouraged to follow all rules, even when it was to their disadvantage.
I wonder if you should make a difference between snitches and tattle-tales?
In my opinion, snitches are people roundly hated by criminals, because they can't continue their criminal behavior with someone calling the cops to report the house next door is being burglarized or the car next door being stolen.
Tattle tales are people everyone kind of hates. They report minor infractions that no one wants to bother to deal with, or procedural stuff like someone left their trash cans on the curb too long or their grass has grown too high.
Similarly, I've always equated the term Snitch to a criminal informant; an innocent victim or bystander that reports doesn't really make the grade. I've always equated the term to a participant in criminal enterprise that informs to the authorities.
I suppose you have to take the offenses ala-carte to determine how fowl the "snitching" is.
A. Does the violation directly affect you?
B. Does the violation immediately affect you and/or potentially put your health and safety in danger?
C. Is it simply some benign behavior that doesn't really impact you?
Also bear in mind snitching can be the only viable counter or defense for someone, especially in a location with tough multiple laws for weapons/self defense/etc. Even pepper spray can get someone defending themselves in major hot water in certain locations.
I joke down in the Survival/Self Sufficiency Forum that one will soon need to acquire a permit and go through a background check and three month waiting period to buy a screwdriver at the Home Depot.
I'm referring to those who would do things like report someone who violated social distancing laws, just as one example.
That is not a "snitch" in urban terms.
A snitch is someone who will tell on others because they are looking for a deal from being caught on something. A snitch often will be in familiar relations with the person(s) they are snitching on.
A random person who reports perceived illegal activities on a random person doing it is not considered a snitch in general, urban terms.
If I report someone shot someone, that does not make me a snitch. However, if I am friends with someone who I know murdered someone because he told me, and I get caught with drugs, and I make a deal with the cops to get out of the drug issue in exchange for information on the murder, that makes me a snitch.
Some of you condoning ratting people out would have been good little soldiers in Nazi Germany.
Exactly what we were thinking over here too. Having had close relatives that were living in that country during that time in history; and remembering the stories they would tell. Sounds so familiar.
If you as a society and individual are making significant sacrifices to accomplish something important be it winning a war or flattening a curve of viral death, then someone comes along and doesn't take it seriously, I don't think there is anything wrong with the psyche of the person who reports violators.
It is like going to college, working your butt off to pay for school, graduate with honors and watching some rich kid cheat their way through. I think there is something more off psychologically with someone who wouldn't report the cheater. It is like a form of internal virtue signaling or some type of self punishment to stay silent.
Certainly I would hope citizens who reported lack of adherence of blackout regulations during wartime would not be deemed "snitches". I mean your town can get bombed but don't tattle.?
What it takes for a society to fail is citizens not getting involved, good people doing nothing.
Ozzy, your life would improve a thousand-fold if you shut down social media completely. I guarantee.
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