When I was young it wasn’t cool to narc on anyone about anything. Kids who were narcs were the ones beaten up after school. Everyone understood the rule that you never tattled, no matter what. Kids who didn’t cave under threats or pressure were our heroes and narcs were the cowards.
In today’s society we have many establishments and people encouraging and condoning narcs. It started with DARE, which told kids at school to narc on your family members who drank too much or smoked pot. The HOV violators were next. Now we have commercials portraying people threatening to make a phone call if you litter or don’t secure your load.
Don’t get me wrong, most of these are noble causes. The problem is how our society relies on tattle-tales to be our police force. This doesn’t make sense to me because most people aren’t good enough judges of right or wrong or we wouldn’t have most problems in the first place. If everyone had common sense and treated themselves, others and this world justly, we wouldn’t need a society of narcs. Moreover, when we were young, the first one to tattle usually had the most to hide.
Until there’s a 764-NARC number to report the following, I won’t condone any tattle-tale policy whatsoever.
1) Vehicles in the fast lane holding up traffic with plenty of room in front of them.
2) The State Patrol trooper who doesn’t pull these vehicles over.
3) Vehicles with more than one person but they’re not using the HOV lane.
4) People who smoke cigarettes around children, anywhere, especially while the kids are trapped in a vehicle.
Maybe soon we’ll have a number we can send photos to from our phones, narcing on vehicles running red lights.
Ken Hopstad
Marysville
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