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Episode 14: Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers

Episode 14: Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 14: Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Feb 8, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In a break from tradition, we recorded a 25-minute episode on the morality of tattletaling, snitching, ratting, and whistleblowing. We discuss why these people seem especially despicable (except for maybe "Bubbles" from "The Wire" and the guy from "The Insider"), and David gets Tamler to agree that he'd never turn him into the police. We also puzzle over the existence of porn theaters, and the origins of the expression "flip a bitch." LinksStop Snitchin' campaign [wikipedia.org]Bubbles (character from "The Wire") [wikipedia.org]Time Magazine Persons of the Year: Whistleblowers [time.com]Ingram, G. P., & Bering, J. M. (2010). Children’s tattling: The reporting of everyday norm violations in preschool settings. Child development, 81, 945-957.Obie Trice feat. Akon "Snitch""Dry Snitching" [urbandictionary.com] 
Released:
Feb 8, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.