In the school yard it's usually the outsider - the kid who doesn't quite fit in and therefore isn't enjoying the benefits of what the other kids are enjoying, so snitches to stop their enjoyment and punish them for their rejection or other cruelty.

Attention comes to mind, I imagine the cops flatter them up quite a bit, make them feel special.

I think it may matter what activity is being snitched on.  Most people would probably turn in a murderer, especially if they weren't someone they knew.  I once turned in a woman for child abuse, but I was really very self righteous in those days.  Doubt it did any good.

Salat

so self righteousness (on a mission from god people), people who are jealous and, want attention i see.
muderers are nicer people than conniving sociopaths who steal old people's life savings at least most of them are, i'd rather talk to a murderer than some those other noxious personalities.

this is understood especially in fascist or communist regimes where if you don't tell on your neighbor you could be jailed/shot.
but you would be suprized how quick people are to drop dimes for trivial reasons.
i think jealousy and self righteousness stand out.

'don't be stupid be a smarty come and join the nazi party!'

I think I'M the one percent hehehe

Don't be the one that "corrupted" them, because then they will internally pin the blame for their own actions on you.

Thats just random, if somebody will give you away he will make up a reason to have morally more acceptable for himself and maybe for others. To do so a person will always find a reason, so there is nothing one can avoid. Not "corrupting" people sounds like a good idea to me anyways though.

In the end it boils down to the problem that peolple know stuff they actually would not need to know for no rational reason but the outright stupid "if you trust me prove it" bullshit. Observing a strict "need to know" policy for everybody is the best you can do. A 2modified reality" approach may be helpful sometimes by telling somebody a solid but made up version of reality. When it comes back to you, you know where from.

There are very few who relly consequently refuse to cooperate with the man even under heavy pressure. What is so very disgusting with the rest is how fucking CHEAP they sell you out. There is a difference between facing 10 years or more in prison or loosing your drivers licence for a year...

/ORG

Having been on the receiving side of a "professional snitcher" (yes, this person had spilled his guts on a few others that were inside with me), I have found that if you look close enough at a person's character defects, that in most instances you can tell that they born to be a snitch. Sure some of what has been said comes into play such as having one's freedom on the line. This is especially true when dealing with people with children, people facing the bitch (habitual or 3 strikes your out - law), and those who are scared that mommie or daddy are going to find out what they little darlin' has been up to. However, in some instances you just know, or at least should have known. Damn, what was he thinking by bringing the homeboy back into the fold when he was just kicked out of county on an o.r after getting popped with an oz.  Sheesh...


mez

Aye same.

Whilst toady doesn't, and indeed has never done so (in truth....although he may, may have sold a joint on a train when he was about 9........) Can't bee sure if he didn't just give it, after all those years of his.

Thats why. Greedy bloody wankers, and stupid bastards at that. Had two 'job interviews' even. So to speak, one by a gun runner met on the inside that wanted me to work for him. HIS guys werent even competent enough to show up. Next guy pissed in his own sink for convenience and probably couldn't spell any words longer than 'ey luv, ten pints o' wifebeater when ye got a few'

Or the first couple of words and punctuation marks at least....


Working with the lowest common denominator. Human greed, Human avarice and stupidity. Lived locally within the span of one average sized western european, non-capital city. But fuck....wants MDMA....but when questioned about MDA and 'do you like chemists with, or without cancer' *that is, to say, chemist who doesn't want to sod around with anything like DMSO4 unless absocuntinlutely irreplaceable, thinking of methylating agents, easier primary amines and non-cancer-infested-long-happy-life, of course.

This twat might have been able to walk from one place to a second, pre-agreed destination point....but I VERY much doubt if he knew what a dissociation constant was, could have seen that git thinking things like 'this dilute HF is a very weak acid.....fine....got to be...'

Or maybe 'two long words in succes...err...next to the other one....too much'

Fuck that.  Toady can scarcely disguise his contempt, let alone bloody work with the fuckers.
Questioned about security arrangements....'boys know whats up yo  '
Nooo.......Sorry. Get a team with specialist knowledge of TCP/IP
or go find another person with chemistry knowledge, shit income, and zero moral fibre. And of course, find someone else to do the predictive work?

Hah.

Never have, never will, work for such. Neither would toady. And he would swear that in court, on his honor. Hell, on his feelings for his stalker. And would be able to swear falsely on neither.

 
would have looked like a mastermind contestant, compared to the actual response, however he got, from the second. Sheesh. Can't remember word for word...but suffice as to say, lazy enough to know where to find somebody qualified...doesn't bother....or too stupid to even tell them what they want........just tell me when, so me and toady can go schedule that ClF3 experiment in the meantime ....

Amen to that. I am my own master. More paranoid by the day

Had a dream last night. working in the lab when a bunch of cops  come up the drive claiming I'm a fascist and they want to search the place  spooky

Keep your mouth shut and your circle close. That tends to reduce the problem.