By gossiping your really trying to wear the hat of god to some degree. In life I have found people need to ‘steal’ a slice of this ‘god hat’ to the degree they suffer under their own insecurities.
Most wholesome folk in general wish the well of others and like to see the success of the underdog and victor of good over evil. But one and all are able to be guilty of that all too luring vice of gossip. Or back chat. Or dishing the dirt out. Or worse embellishing a truth to make the picture much worse than it is.
It’s an attempt to meddle in the affairs of another and actually cap their ability to succeed some. But why do we feel the need to do this.
We justify it with some sense of social justice but really people gossip about another to the exact same degree they feel threatened by them.
And of course there is no more rampant field for gossip than during most split up couples and family feuds.
The animosity associated with most deeply emotional break downs in relationship does spark a thing in most that make it keen on them to tell anyone who would listen how wronged they are by the general badness of the other. Which therefore ‘justifies’ them being put down. ‘To help the world from my own follies’, when in truth one is seeking to heal some inner hurt and sense of failure.
Many break ups and family break downs can be done with emotional maturity but that is the exception to the rule.
In most cases the gossiper is trying to cover up their own short comings.
Reporting of crimes is not gossip and should be done to the appropriate authorities. Not newspapers.
If the authorities can not resolve the matter then one must go public and this then is trying to effect the fate of others aka playing god again.
To cover up a dose of wee man syndrome. (sense of failure or an insecurity).
In Scotland we say ‘wee man’ to mean someone who has a chip on their soldier for not rising to the height of their peers, be it physically or another means.