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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It's the way dictatorships often work, fascist and communist... neighbours spying on neighbours and civilians policing on behalf of the state. The illegal immigrant aspect is a little more unique, but same concept. You don't like your neighbour, report them for making anti-government statements and watch them get taken away. It could just be a matter of time until it gets to that point.
That stuff causes long term societal scars as well. Even after the dictatorship falls, people remember which families or ethnic/demographic groups were the rats.
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In Nazi Germany people would rat on others for not having or displaying their copy of Mein Kampf.