Admittedly it is a bit pedantic, but I was thinking more along the lines of how it might accidentally disincentivize the behavior you desire. But it's largely speculation on my part, because I am not irl buddies with any such person and so I don't fully understand how to motivate them.

I do agree with your general stance here, there is a surplus of talkers and those talkers can make people too comfortable to take action (because action is uncomfortable). This stuff would be a lot simpler if feds weren't paid a salary to muck up things and seed paranoia.

I've also become wary of posts like "you won't do anything" and "do something", because the vagueness reeks to me. In my mind, a man under pressure should receive some guidance more useful than that, especially since a lot of us are basically strangers and don't know how stable the other person is.