Do you Snitch?

Once again I'm completely against child p*rnography good lord people. I don't believe in snitching because I have gotten snitched on for something that never happened. Some people are so sensitive. I don't support what he did. It's discusting. I have my opinions, doesn't mean I'm a sick person but my outlook completely changed once I got screwed over in that sense. Why would I ever let my kids pictured on the Internet so stupid question. Im not defending the freak who looks at those horrible photos. I just think it's stupid just in general that someone can have their life ruined when another person claims to have seen something. As sick as it is to look at those pictures it doesn't deserve someone losing there basic freedom for multiple years. I understand he probably intently looked at them which is apauling but maybe he typed in the wrong website or it was a pop up. There's always those what if scenarios. I dont know, I was not there.

 

I don't like the idea that someone can take someones basic freedom away from their perception on something. You just don't know these days and until you have been falsely accused of something you probably wouldn't understand.

 

Only if it is to my mom about a sibling. Fight fire with fire my friends.

On other people? Depends, if I see you steal, I will evaluate the likely hood of me getting shot, then proceed to rate that muh f'er out.

I see a crime, I'm reporting it. However, I saw a fight in a Taco C once, I was in my car, my friend was trying to calm them down because he knew a lot of the people (football players from two schools). Anyways, the start fights and within seconds this kid next to my car gets sucker punched, hits his head on the curb, and goes into a seizure. Anyone ever gotten caught doing something really bad? You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach, that's how I felt for like a week. I called the cops, but drove away. Then came back to talk to them. I felt so bad because I knew the kid who threw the punch and I didn't know what to do. If I could do it over again, I would have snitched on his ass so quick.

Seriously one of the scariest moments of my life, they took this kid and threw him into the back of a pickup truck then took him to the hospital (I assume).

 

I think you're failing to address quite a few issues. I think I understand your position quite clearly; I just disagree with it. Here are some things that you haven't addressed:

1) Committing a crime in plain sight. Whether or not you agree with what the law of the land is, is it your duty to report to the appropriate authorities a crime being committed. In this instance, I saw a hotel employee looking at kiddie p*rn in the hotel lobby. I informed the hotel. Do you disagree with that action?

2) Assumptions on the person's background. You pitied him for being a maintenance worker and also assumed that he could have a family. In response, I said he could be a rapist. None of this should matter when a person is committing a crime. A fellow human being should report Mother Teresa, or Hitler, if he witnesses that person committing a heinous crime in public. I believe downloading and viewing kiddie p*rn is a serious matter.

3) Assuming that my actions of telling the hotel means that this guy's life is over. You bring up the possibility that he innocently was doing this. Well, I'm not a judge or jury. It's not my duty to investigate the crime. I am a witness and so I report. If he innocently typed in kidsex.com or something then a proper police investigation would show that he doesn't have a lot of child p*rn on his computer. It was his laptop connecting to the hotel's ethernet cord. You're jumping to conclusions in assuming that my actions of informing the hotel = this man's life is over and he could be innocent.

4) You imposing your morals and personal biases into a one-size-fits-all situation. You got screwed in your past by someone falsely accusing you of something. Because of this, you hear my first hand story of witnessing a crime and you feel empathy for the perpetrator. You also feel that the possible punishment (not guaranteed punishment) that the law could give this person is too severe. Because of that, you would not report the crime if you saw it. So does that mean, you do snitch, but only if the potential legal punishment fits the crime in your opinion?

What if you were me and you decided to witness more. And it became clear and evident that this person was downloading kiddie p*rn in the hotel lobby. What if he was jerking it? Would you then tell the hotel? What if kiddie p*rn only got a max of 1 year in jail as a potential punishment? Would you then tell the hotel? What if kiddie p*rn only got a fine for someone convicted of that crime? Would you then tell? Would you ever tell and what would the circumstances have to be?