fairly relaxed this is in our culture, instead divested to informal behavior controls, mechanisms of adverse attention perhaps, but education’s the big thing, related something like an egalitarian ethic, the we doesn’t impose much, instead individuals are allowed to arrive by agreement, their own agreement. A similar idea features in contract law I reckon, and common notions of agreement, the parties have to agree, otherwise it isn’t agreement, and there are laws discouraging coercion etc.
people mind their own business a lot, one of joys of freedom, the operating space to do that.
people don’t dob each other in for minor crimes, a lot, otherwise the world or your part of starts to seem very small, it’s creeping too, and informal behavior controls start to become increasingly replaced with formal. Before long you’re not a volunteer enjoying freedom, doing the right thing, it tends toward something like east germany, way back.
some churched have an idea similar to the idea it is a crime not to report a crime, if they are not out trying to convert people, doing the good work, God’s work, they are sinners.
there’s a hint there above of where i’m going with this, without mentioning it, it’s all over the TV.
forgiveness features in a our culture quite broadly, maybe not a lot of it, but you don’t need religion to understand the idea, and i’m sure it existed as a human ability way back, on the african savanna even.
religion got in the forgiveness business way back, and it’s not completely unrelated the purpose of the law similar, in stopping or limiting spiraling or self-perpetuating retribution.
anyway you could see some churches as amplifying forgiveness, particularly by those delivering the forgiveness and doing it for themselves, to the point that it’s a crime not to report a crime (the idea, that lends to behavior controls) becomes hopelessly ineffective.
so in a country (or culture) that already fairly relaxed this you could have an organization in which it was further relaxed.
such a thing might be less relaxed in a more authoritarian country.
it makes perfect sense a church in the forgiveness business might so relax the idea of it being a crime not to report a crime (do something about it), it’s in fact a characteristic of our culture. Part of the ideology, or freedom philosophy.
not so distant from the idea it’s only wrong if you get caught
rushed that above, it’s writ like shit, but the idea should be obvious enough.
an organization, a church or whatever, can take a most cherished virtue of a culture, part of the philosophy of liberty, amplify it around them, and fail when it matters, terribly. Summarized.