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.

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