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Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that 18-year-old Jacob Cox-Brown has been arrested after telling his Facebook network that he had hit a car while driving drunk, posting the message: 'Drivin drunk ... classsic ;) but to whoever's vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P' Two of Cox-Brown's friends saw the message and sent it along to two separate local police officers and after receiving the tip, police went to Cox-Brown's house and were able to match a vehicle there to one that had hit two others in the early hours of the morning. Police then charged the teen with two counts of failing to perform the duties of a driver. 'Astoria Police have an active social media presence,' says a press release from Astoria Police. 'It was a private Facebook message to one of our officers that got this case moving, though. When you post ... on Facebook, you have to figure that it is not going to stay private long.'"
When I read post like yours (and original story), I think "what happened to natural selection?".
Affirmative action destroyed it.
My grandfather was deported in Auschwitz, after being reported as a Jew, by a "good" neighbour, to the Nazis during WW II. At the time it was a rational thing to do since it's what the goverment told people to do, and it was also good from the Nazis perspective. I've never known my grandfather, nor did my mother know her father, as my grandmother was still pregnant. That's just one example, among so many millions of others.
So tell me, how many people were led to an atrocious death by "rationally good snitchers"?