in defense of snitches

i always here people throw around phrases like:

"snitches get stitches."
"loose lips sink ships."
"never be a rat."

there seems to be this idea floating around that all forms of snitching are bad and anyone who commits the act of snitching is a bad person. and i get it. we all do things that we don't want other people to find out about. most of us are guilty of something that we'd like hidden... even little things like trashing someone behind their back. things like gossip are hard to avoid.

but if you're willing to say something about someone, then you should be willing to say it to that person's face. it's your opinion and you should own it fully and not cower at the opportunity to share that opinion with the target directly.

this is just a small example. people usually say, "don't be a snitch," cuz they know they're doing something wrong. the guilt is implied in the statement. so why feel guilty when you can put that onus on the people around you (friends and family in many cases)? yea, you're an asshole for doing whatever it is you didn't want people saying you did, but fuck that dude who told everyone that you did it in the first place. if not for him, right? your reputation would be in tact. you'd still be an asshole, just an asshole in hiding.

i got a better idea. how about you do what's right by your conscience? if you're not able to fully own the things that you do, then how about you don't do it? especially when it comes to acts that fuck other people over. if you're hurting someone else and you want other people to hide that from the world on your behalf, you're not just a douchebag, you're a douchbag squared.

if you're still not with me on this, i suppose drastic times call for drastic measures. jerry sandusky. you'd rat him out. you better. if you wouldn't, if you're so gun-ho about your anti-snitching policy that you'd not snitch on jerry sandusky, please stop reading this now and never come back. it'd disgust me to even think someone like that would read the stuff i'd write.