So what you're trying to say, is that if you see someone smokin a J you will report them for possession of a controlled narcotic? And I guess you'd also report that same guy for offering you a toke (if he did) of conspiring to distribute(or sell) a controlled narcotic, even though you could far easier, just walk away.Lord Garnaat said:I was having a conversation with some acquaintances earlier, when the subject drifted to some other people said acquaintances were neighbors with. Apparently the neighbors were engaging in some illegal activities, not serious offences but still against the law, and I suggested reporting them to the local authorities. What surprised me, however, was that they all thought I was joking at first, and then seemed extremely confused when I stated that I wasn't. The idea of telling the people in charge that the neighbors were committing a crime seemed like an abhorrent idea to them, and seemed to dislike that I had suggested doing it. And this strikes me as somewhat odd.
You see, I despise people who break the law, particularly when they do it for no good reason other than they want to. Occasionally you hear about people committing a crime for a sympathetic reason, like robbing a store to pay for a loved ones medical expenses, but for the most part I find law-breaking of any kind to be vile and disgusting. It's simply always gone without saying for me that the law, while imperfect, is absolute: no one is above it, no one is below it, and everyone must do their part to uphold what is just and punish those who go against it.
And yet when the idea of ensuring that people committing a crime were punished came up, the people I spoke to seemed actively against it. And that got me wondering: what is your opinion of the law? Do you strive to follow it, or do you prefer to set it aside? And if given the choice, would you want to report someone doing something illegal, or keep to yourself?
I mean ok if the justice system wasn't a flawed bullshit system where people are unjustly punished for their actions, especially in the states, due to the prison system being one of the highest profit privatized industries in the country.
So essencially you'd subject a man to years of rape and confinement, over using a substance that hasn't even been proven to harm anyone on a medical level, just because it's against the law, laws that were written up by the same people who commonly accept bribes from corporations to allow the sale of things that kill people on a daily basis... great logic there man, I can already see how successful, and happy you are going to be in life.
Take a clue from me, if you rat someone out, especially for something that he/she is doing that harms nobody, or nobody aside from them, you are condemning them to confinement and rape, you become morally reprehensible, as a man who has confined and given means to inflict rape upon someone who has harmed nobody in the course of their actions.
Hell, if they provide for a family, you've just condemned that family to a live of poverty and starvation, and for what? NOTHING.
My advice, check yourself before you wreck yourself, because there's also the possibility that you may be affected by it too, if that person's family has close ties with your boss, your life becomes miserable because, let's just say that you put your employer's best friend's son in the slammer for smoking a joint, or something of that level of harmlessness to society as a whole, and he finds out about that, maybe you lose your job, or maybe he just finds less enjoyable tasks for you, or "Promotes" you into the janitorial department, or some shit, now you gotta suffer, and rightfully so.
In life, there is a single important principle to live by, and that is to treat others as you would want to be treated, or if you don't want to be too nice, you gotta at least give people respect as people, you don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong, and people are less likely to fuck your shit up for it.
My general assumption based on your post is that you are a white male, living in a middle to upper middle class situation, probably from a relatively stable family, and you were probably raised in a church environment, quite possibly a baptist church, maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're still a "life virgin" who's never had to scrape by on next to nothing, never had to sleep on a floor or couch of a friend because you had nowhere else to stay, and likely never had to go days without food for a lack of money to buy any, once you've been through the wringer, then we can talk life, 'til then, keep your goody two shoes holier than thou, the law is always right, attitude from hurting other people, please.