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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That "no one likes a tattletale" attitude is a bane to society, and an excellent explanation of what people are "being punished" for.  |
Actually I think there is an unfortunate and incorrect crossover between tattletaling and whistle-blowing, that was never intended by whoever originally made up those rules.
The admonition against tattletaling is SUPPOSED to be along the lines of not looking to get people into trouble maliciously, keeping your own house in order, not casting stones from your glass house (if I may mix metaphors), not rushing to judgment, etc.
Like the Golden Rule, it's a way to help kids calibrate their moral compasses, until they can process and judge more complex situations.
It was never, I think, intended to lead to professional codes of silence, or to condition people to not stand up against wrongdoing.
And the only connection I think there should be between tattletaling and whistle-blowing, is that hopefully the "no tattletaling" lesson would have taught one to be sure about the facts before blowing a whistle.
There are indeed other forces that would prefer everyone be conditioned to not get involved and leave all that standing-up-again-wrongdoing nonsense to the Government-approved
nannies professionals, but that's for another forum.
ApK