Whistleblower vs Tattletale
 

What's the difference?

Tattletale is when I see my brother snag a cookie from the cookie jar, and I tell on him.

Whistleblower is when some agency/business/government is doing something illegal or injurious to other people, and that person brings it to light.

If the "tattletale" is telling the truth and likely saving lives then they are a whistleblower. If the "tattletale" is lying and making up stories then they are just jealous vindictive people. A "tattletale" is only bad to the person they are "tattling" about assuming that person did something wrong.

The whistleblower get's protection the tattletale get's beat up.

I wish you were my sister and ratted me out to Mom! :1rotfl::1rotfl: Could have saved me a lifetime of Weight Watchers Meetings! :1rotfl:

I'm out on this subject. It's a great question to discuss privately. Capiche??? :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

a whistleblower or tattletale
 

When busy bodies report social distancing violations, are they whistleblowers or tattletalers?

I would assume you consider them to be busy bodies since that is how you described them. I don't know, I haven't been out. My age group rests among those if we contracted Covid-19 there is between ten and fifteen percent risk of dying from it.

If you are out and about and taking your chances of catching Covid-19, when there is still a possibility of getting this varmint bug that no one's body has EVER encountered until now, you run the risk of having someone annoyed with you If you aren't social distancing.

Whistleblowers were tattletales in grammar school.
Steve

control freaks

[QUOTE=graciegirl;1767437]I would assume you consider them to be busy bodies since that is how you described them.

Your right, I have considered them busy bodies, but now I'm trying to decide if they are being responsible citizens reporting violations.

Your question can't be answered because the word "report" is much too vague.

If you are referring to the endless posts on social media that describe social distance violations, I consider them to be tattletales.

If the person observing the violation reports it to law enforcement, then I think they are responsible whistle blowers.

My opinion is that 99.99% of the violations are posted on social media and are a complete waste of our time. The remainder are reported to law enforcement.

I vote "tattle-tales"...because it take two consenting adults (I'm assuming we are talking about adults here, I would have a different opinion if there were children being exposed) to violate the social distancing guidelines. Personally, I think that if adults are willing to get sick, they are likely doing the herd a beneficial service.

But that's just my opinion. I'll keep my distance, thank you.

What is this? The third grade?

And how far a step is it to the next level of reporting your friends, neighbors and even family to the "authorities"? We already have the history of how this works out in Germany, Russia, and China. MYOB is still a good policy.

Trolls......

Based on the posts on this site MYOB is not the mantra here. And if negatively impacts you or your family I doubt it would be yours either.

I agree. But......folks who are not abiding by social distancing or not wearing masks when they can not social distance IS MY BUSINESS. Those folks who are not abiding by the guidelines are putting my health at risk so, yes, that is my business.

I think that this issue boils down to the sort of "social manners" you are used to. I have heard it said that the British would not point out your wrong doing until right up to the second before they kill you.

I am used to the way people were taught in Ohio, where they did not remind others of rules..... IF they were ADULTS. However mothers had no problem reporting another's child to it's mother and the mother was grateful so she could take the little scofflaw in hand and um...redirect him.

Some people from certain areas are very outspoken and if you move here to The Villages, that takes some getting used to. On the other side of the coin, those who are try to phrase things gently are sometimes looked down on here for NOT speaking up. It all depends on how you were raised and where you were raised.

It really doesn't matter. It appears that most of us have so much confidence in our own way of looking at things, that nothing will change our mind and to try is going to annoy us big time and entirely a waste of time.

All we can do is to run our own railroad.

And either watch Darwins theory play out or Karma bite us in the butt.

I'm curious how far MYOB goes.

Should one report: prohibited soliciting, trespassers on a neighbor's property, unfamiliar cars parked for days, bad customer service, littering, a person with open containers in a vehicle, barking dogs, someone sunbathing naked in their yard, business scams, loud arguments, gunshots ...

When such concerns are posted here, the recommendations are usually to take it up with your neighbor, speak to the manager, notify community watch, call the police, etc. The advice is rarely to go back in your house and ignore it.

Neither...they are Snitches.....best advice ....MYOB.

I'm renting for the summer as first timer at villages and this seems to be an issue there.

This is point of the original poster: where do you draw the line?
Does it depend on the seriousness of rule or is it the intent on the person tattle telling/ blowing the whistle?


(btw-someone would report someone sunbathing naked?) Not sure how that harms anyone, it's an adult community , so if you don't want to see it , don't look

I think the line might be where breaking a rule could cause harm to someone (which social distancing could fall in that category, but several other threads are debating that point}

I think social distancing started my question, but isn't specific to social distancing but the mentality in the villages of where to draw the line for MYOB?

One more time........people who are not abiding by the safety guidelines put forth to Americans IS MY BUSINESS! Having said that, I have not been a "snitch" nor a whistle blower or a tattle tale regarding people's blatant disregard for the guidelines.

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IMHO - A whistleblower reports something vitally important to the safety of others
A tattle tale goes out of their way to look for every slight and gets a sense of delight and importance in being first to report it

One of the above is immature...

The new normal????