[quote]Professor X wrote:
steelwheels wrote:
Fuck everyone else. Let them do what they want to do and just look after yourself. When some gangbanger moves in next door to you, pimping girls and selling crack right in front of your house and he’s armed to the teeth, so there is fuck all you can do about it, just remember KEEP YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT - otherwise you’re a snitch!
That isn’t the point at all and your rant sounds like someone who never lived anywhere near a house that sold drugs. I grew up right next door to one before we moved as a kid. There is a reason many with any type of “hood experience” would handle that situation differently than is being implied by those screaming, “run to the cops!”.
For one, common sense dictates that if someone is selling drugs IN an office, that someone is not only buying them, but willing to look out for the person selling them. Common sense also dictates that gossip is not contained inside of an office environment. Everybody talks in an office.
If you don’t give them shit to talk about, they will make shit up just to have something to talk about you with. That would lead us to the logical conclusion of handling siutuations differently than “run to the cops!!”. The first thing that jumped out at me is this guys’ focus on the “drug dealer’s” political views. Why is that even an issue?
Are we sure he is selling? Who saw the transaction? This guy is telling us this story THROUGH his wife.
Life is more like chess than checkers when dealing with large groups of people. I am wondering why this seems like a concept not considered.[/quote]
As someone who grew up in a neighourhood where drugs were sold I are surprised by your attitude.
Surely, you agree that your neighbourhood would have been a safer place to live without the drug dealers? It’s likely your parents would have felt much safer if you had not been born into this environment, and I’m sure that you would feel the same if the situation was reversed.
Shopping this guy for what he is doing comes down to a question of ethics. I personally have never “snitched” one anybody (just to make that clear). If something was bothering me that much I would either remove myself from the situation, or just put up with it(preferably the former). However, the original poster is obviously at ease with the thought of going to the police, therefore if he feels that this course of action is the best one he should go ahead.
Second guessing that I’ve never lived in a situation were I was living in close proximity this is completely erroneus. Without going into specifics I spent a lengthy period of time were I was surrounded by drugs and drug dealers of every nature. I adapted to this environment very well by keeping my mouth shut. That does not mean that I would’t have been pleased if some of the more unsavoury elements had been removed from the equation.
If society had a greater sense of community the act of “snitching” would not even come into question, since the outcome would be beneficial for the majority, not just the individual. I for one would prefer to live in a place like this.
So as I said intially, go ahead “snitch”.
Wheels
