This reads like you are a fan of the merda rat Fabrizio Corona.
Cause if anything, he'd be the Snowden in this weird ass comparison, not Fagioli.
I don't need to be a fan of the opportunist but I can be glad with the outcome from the ratting out. And yes, I always have to understand the context and deliberation behind the ratting.
There is a difference between a rat and a whistleblower.
Fagioli's entire incentive to rat has nothing to do with society. He personally did something wrong and wants to get off easy so he rats out someone else. If he wasn't personally prosecuted, he'd never have come forward with that information. But now, because he is prosecuted himself, he chooses to point to a friend rather than take personal responsability. I don't hate him though. I just think it's another thing he did wrong.
It has nothing to do with society but minor events and activities can have societal impact. And if we only look at major implications, we will never catch the minor. If we catch minor activities that does not seem to have implications for society, then some of the major implication may not even come to be. Fagiolis' reasoning for ratting out is opportunistic and we can dislike the reasons, but we should else embrace the notion of ratting or whistleblowing. We tend to look down on both but if we do so, we also make it more challenging to rat or whistleblow. I am mad at him too, so I hope no one confuses my intentions here (you don't seem to, I am speaking generally now).
Whistleblowing and ratting on your friends, key word here is friends, to save your skin are 2 completely different things. The latter is absolutely disgusting behavior that warrants a healthy dose of scorn and humiliation. Breaking convenants is ignoble. So fuck him for both being a degenerate and also a bitch who in my estimate,and rightfully so, will never be accepted or respected in a locker room again.
Let's exaggerate it a lot now. Let's say your friend murder someone. Is your loyalty more important than ratting him out? To me, like I wrote earlier, loyalty is overrated. And where do you draw the line? Stealing a cookie in a five star hotel and ratting out on the friend for it? Stealing a cookie from a struggling small private business owner? Tax fraud? Violence at home? You have to draw a line somewhere and from our personal perspective all people are not equally valuable. So depending on context and so on we accept certain behaviors from some people. "He's just like that", the dude might generate a track-record over time.
No one is a saint and I am oversimplifying things. To me this is all really tricky, loyalty or not, it's still hard to draw a line. Where I draw the line for my wife is different than for my friend, my neighbor or someone I am only acquainted to or a complete stranger. Loyalty may be noble, but maybe not the way moving forward if we want to collectively progress our society.
If someone ratted me out I would be very much upset with that person, obviously. But if it leads to a better version of me, maybe I will cope with it. So far in my life, whenever I have misbehaved someone has called me out on it and I have tried to change and I believe I improve as a person every year. I am not a good person, but a better person than I was five, ten, twenty, and so on, years ago. Hence, I am not only upset with Fagioli but also on those in his environment that cared for him but did not correct him. If they did but Fagioli just is that stupid then, really, really, shame on him. Shame on him either way, but not so much for the ratting out part.