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To: epicure who wrote (226453)	6/23/2013 1:58:30 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541326

It is very easy to cross the line whereby people end up spying on one another, or tattling on one another e.g. the neighbor who reports his neighbor is smoking pot. There are lots of busybodies with terrible judgement about what is right and what is wrong and like to cause trouble. And they are the fist ones to join such movements. I see them all the time when they have community meeting regarding city variances and zoning changes. They seldom have anything productive to say. And are often there just to cause trouble. Just look at how people responded after 9/11. It was mob mentality. I am sure in the south, if a white girl was dating a black man, often people couldn't wait to tell on them. Or people who just fear blacks in general and see them in the neighborhood. Sort of what happened in the Zimmerman case. Zimmerman is a perfect case in point of where such things can lead and the Stand your ground laws in Florida which have resulted in several people being killed for no reason. Or nations who tell the people to report on their neighbors like the Nazies did requiring people to report Jews to the authorities. I know when I was growing up tattle telling was among the worst crimes and whomever did the tattle telling was who got punished. I do not want people in my neighborhood spying on me. Many people are busybodies, paranoid or worse, just plain old simple minded trouble makers.