Last night's The Office featured the storyline of Kathy Bates investigating a media leak that the company's printers can catch on fire. This came hours after news that Floyd Landis decided to both admit that he used PEDs and decided to name names of other cyclists that were involved.
While both deal with the same subject matter, they couldn't be any different. In The Office, the faulty printers could be disasterous for both the customers, obviously, but the PR of the company. Sure, telling company secrets is the ultimate no-no, but this one may have saved lives.
Landis isn't doing that. Landis is doing the ol' I-was-caught-and-now-I'm-telling-everyone-else's-business line. It is Canseco-esque. While what Canseco did proved to help baseball confront this issue, it still was nothing more than sour grapes. Feeling as if he's been blackballed from baseball, Canseco then tried to take down the biggest names. He was right in his information, but he was a sort of tattletale.
Same thing with Landis. He got popped for PEDs and now ... for some reason ... decided to own up to it, which is somewhat noble. However, he went further and implicated Lance Armstrong and various others that either did PEDs or were the people who knew about it. Is that noble or just snitchy.
Snitching has always been a healthy debate in society. Some feel that it is your duty to point out any wrong doing. Others feel that everyone should mind their own business. And then there are others who live in the middle and feel that people should mind their own business unless they see that their is a victim of the wrong-doing.
It's a personal thing. If you get in trouble somewhere, do you point out all your friends that were also doing it or do you shut up and take your punishment? I'm not talking about some heinous crime or anything ... just a normal incident. Say, at work, you get caught taking unauthorized smoke breaks, do you throw the other people breaking the rule under the bus or just deal with the consequences of you getting caught.
Perfect example of this just broke today. Dwayne Bowe of the Kansas City Chiefs made comments to ESPN the Magazine that teammates had set-up female companionships that were outside of their marriages. Is that out of bounds? Should you point out a co-worker cheating on their spouse or should you just let it go and feel that they "are on their own."
Again, if you saw a crime was committed and you come forward, most won't see that as snitching -- though that's been frowned on a bit in some communities. But a misguided soul that is trying to get away with something? That's a tough call.
Most would feel that The Office whistleblower was justified, Landis and Bowe are snitches. Or course, the people affected by the actions Landis and Bowe would feel that they did them a service by bringing up the problem. Others will feel that minding your own business and letting these other people hang themselves by their actions is the more proper thing to do.
While both deal with the same subject matter, they couldn't be any different. In The Office, the faulty printers could be disasterous for both the customers, obviously, but the PR of the company. Sure, telling company secrets is the ultimate no-no, but this one may have saved lives.
Landis isn't doing that. Landis is doing the ol' I-was-caught-and-now-I'm-telling-everyone-else's-business line. It is Canseco-esque. While what Canseco did proved to help baseball confront this issue, it still was nothing more than sour grapes. Feeling as if he's been blackballed from baseball, Canseco then tried to take down the biggest names. He was right in his information, but he was a sort of tattletale.
Same thing with Landis. He got popped for PEDs and now ... for some reason ... decided to own up to it, which is somewhat noble. However, he went further and implicated Lance Armstrong and various others that either did PEDs or were the people who knew about it. Is that noble or just snitchy.
Snitching has always been a healthy debate in society. Some feel that it is your duty to point out any wrong doing. Others feel that everyone should mind their own business. And then there are others who live in the middle and feel that people should mind their own business unless they see that their is a victim of the wrong-doing.
It's a personal thing. If you get in trouble somewhere, do you point out all your friends that were also doing it or do you shut up and take your punishment? I'm not talking about some heinous crime or anything ... just a normal incident. Say, at work, you get caught taking unauthorized smoke breaks, do you throw the other people breaking the rule under the bus or just deal with the consequences of you getting caught.
Perfect example of this just broke today. Dwayne Bowe of the Kansas City Chiefs made comments to ESPN the Magazine that teammates had set-up female companionships that were outside of their marriages. Is that out of bounds? Should you point out a co-worker cheating on their spouse or should you just let it go and feel that they "are on their own."
Again, if you saw a crime was committed and you come forward, most won't see that as snitching -- though that's been frowned on a bit in some communities. But a misguided soul that is trying to get away with something? That's a tough call.
Most would feel that The Office whistleblower was justified, Landis and Bowe are snitches. Or course, the people affected by the actions Landis and Bowe would feel that they did them a service by bringing up the problem. Others will feel that minding your own business and letting these other people hang themselves by their actions is the more proper thing to do.
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