Student house party. 75% voted for OP to call police.
Really?
I think this thread is chilling proof at how far we've fallen in a society within such a small amount of time. Less than a year with constant media brainwashing, all of us essentially under house arrest, and look at us. Clearing out supermarkets and calling the police because "it's the right thing to do" and "they're putting society at risk".
Who else would you have turned in?
At what other point in history would you have colluded with the government to "do the right thing", without any thought for your fellow humans just being people?
They are students. They are broke, they have been confined to their box rooms almost a whole year. Have some heart for christs sake.
And by the way, I do believe in covid. I believe in staying home and wearing masks and doing the right thing. I would never grass though. Ever. And that goes for covid antics, benefit fraud, whatever. I believe people sometimes do what they need to do to survive physically or emotionally.
I think its terrifying what society has become in less than a year.
Who would have thought we would be living on a world where you would be standing in a little yellow circle traced out on a supermarket floor, and not an inch over if you please, else you'll be reported as a health threat!
Is this our world now? In which young lonely people are turned in and fined for spending time together?
I'm not advocating for student parties, I'm advocating for looking away when you see one.
AIBU?
To find these covid snitching threads terrifying
CrotchBurn · 22/11/2020 07:12
Am I being unreasonable?
907 votes. Final results.
POLL@CrotchBurn I wouldn't phone the police in those instances either, most likely. But not because they dont cause direct harm- of course they do.
Benefit fraud reinforces a culture where benefit claimants are seen as scroungers. Theft from a shop obviously causes some direct impact to the shop owner 
(that one is obvious!). Disregarding pandemic rules puts a few in direct harm of illness or death and puts the many in harm of never ending lockdowns and restrictions.
The shit we do generally matters. Teach that to your kids if you have them!
I’d be annoyed but quietly understanding too. I was a student in the 90s and we loved going out dancing. I do feel for them.
I wouldn’t have broken the rules as a student and don’t now. But I kind of have a bit of sympathy- you’re only young once 
Just let people die then op. Its fine, it's just a virus, the poor students need to let off some steam and have a party. The older or vulnerable people don't matter if they catch it and die, they should have stayed inside, right?
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