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Originally Posted by Delgar
Viral shaming is the new public stoning, but instead of a crowd of 20 to 50 killing you, you have 10,000 plus denouncing you. You live but lose your job or business and any prospect to earn a living.
Its analogous to modern international relations. It used to be, bomb or attack them. Now its, sanction them, starve them of the resources to live.
I'm not defending this guy or the taxi guy, but its quite a societal shift.
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It's fascinating and scary as hell. I don't believe everyone should be empathetic to internet shaming in every case, but I also don't believe that the average person even fully understands how catastrophic and life ending a lot of these public shaming cases are.
You're right it really is a throwback to the old days. We spent years evolving in our punishment for crimes, and it's like social media came along and the general public went..
"Yeah state punishments are okay and all, but we found this new thing where we can just end someone's life as they know it when we come across something we don't agree with on our facebook feeds. So we're just going to do that from now on".
I really hate public shaming and honestly feel like those who love it and actively engage in it lack empathy. Or if they do have decent levels of empathy and therefore understand that more often than not you're destroying a life, yet still think it's okay, then good lord, I don't even know what to say.