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- From: chuck@cmhcsys.cmhcsys.com (Chuck Stickelman)
- Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
- Subject: Re: To tattle, or not to tattle
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.184439.25324@cmhcsys.cmhcsys.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:44:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.082413.22409@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <13159@optilink.UUCP>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: CMHC Systems
- Lines: 44
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- In article <13159@optilink.UUCP>, calley@optilink.UUCP (Chris Calley) writes:
- > From article <1992Nov10.082413.22409@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, by billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson):
- > > jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes:
- > >
- > > : What if they were running a crack house, molesting little kids
- > > : or ripping your other neighbors off? You would be as low
- > > : as the people doing the deed if you didn't even anonomusly
- > > : help (at the least).
- > >
- > > If they were molesting people, or robbing people - then certainly.
- > > They are then harming other people. They are not doing so by running
- > > a crack house.
- > >
- > I believe that you are incorrect. Furnishing crack cocaine to someone is
- > not only harming the buyer, but indirectly diminishing the quality of life
- > for those in that neighborhood, and for us taxpayers as a whole. Who pays
- > when a crack addict ends up at the county hospital from an o.d.? In the
- > long run, it's you and me in the form of ever higher health care costs and
- > taxes.
- >
- > In one sense, when you eavesdrop on someones _private_ conversation, you
- > become a party to that conversation and are therefore responsible for
- > what you here. If you condone the illegal actions of those you are
- > eavesdropping on, by all means DON'T turn them in. But, if you believe that
- > what they are doing is wrong, then be true to your convictions and report
- > them to whoever. But what you should not do is hide your head in the
- > sand and pretend you didn't hear anything at all. Or even worse, try to
- > rationalize that what they are doing is not actually harming anyone. That
- > is an old argument that circumvents the real issue of right and wrong.
- > If you don't want to take responsibility for what you may hear, then
- > don't eavesdrop on private conversations.
- >
- >
- > --
- > Christopher A. Calley - all opinions are my own... etc.
- > email: calley@optilink.com
-
- Lets think about this for a moment. You here the bad people doing _very_
- bad things. You call the authorities. They make an arrest(s). It goes
- to court. They (the lawyers, judges, who ever) find that the evidence
- was obtained illegally. What happens next?
-
- Chuck Stickelman
- chuck@cmhcsys.cmhcsys.com
-