NARK!
Tonight we smelled smoke, and looked outside, the people across from us were buring something in the front yard, this is of course, against fire relguations and the managment's rules.
We looked at the fire it was pretty small, but still it could spread - the windows were dark, no porchlight on - was there anyone home over there? Should we check? Just as we were pondering all this, two people came out to attend to the fire - ah good, someone is watching it.
I overheard them bitterly complaining about how people should `mind there own busness" and said something about someone being fat (perhaps directed at me or my brother) and that `this is what's wrong with America' and of course, "Why do people got to Nark?"
Ah yes, the imature mentality of the anti-nark. Don't be a tattletale! The word "nark" is the `grownup' (ha!) version of this. A number of years ago, somone was shot in this area, and I recall one person talking to the news people, talking to whomever was out there "please come forward, your not a nark..."
Today we have the saying "see something, say something". Yet, this old mentality still exists. Don't "tell" on someone.
Well - why the bleep shouldn't you? If you see someone doing something illegal - shouldn't you report it?
Minding your own busness - well great but a FIRE isn't the time to do that - because fire spreads! FIRE BAD but if your doing something you shouldn't - well maybe someone is going to say something about that, and perhaps, they are doing so for protection of others.
See someone go in a house that you've never seen before? Ah well - its fine, don't NARK. Oh someone looks like they are breaking into a car? Not my problem.
Its never your problem and never your busness until it effects you and you wish someone would call for help on your behalf.
But this - mentality that people shouldn't "nark" where did it come from? How do we get rid of it?
Looking at the web - you can see some sad answers from people that dislike `snitching' or `narking' - these low brow, not well thought out ideas of that its betraying a trust or something of that sort, how about its doing what is right? If someone breaks a rule - a law, and so on - shouldn't you say something?
"Stand up for yourself" - oh well... that could lead to problems of all kinds. The whole point of cops and lawers and judges is to make us cival - right?
Yet, what I fear is perhaps that THEY think I am a Nark - they BELEVE that, and might seek to do me, my properity, or my friends/family harm. Because they FEEL that I did something - and that is the sort of mentality that I fear.
Is being a nark good/bad/depends? Shouldn't we try to do what is right, and in the end, if we see something - shouldn't we say something?
