What if we start shaming the shamers.
After an incident, the internet can identify a bunch of the people who shamed someone and then call their boss, friends and family and tell everyone that they are a bully and show them the mean things they said online.
Of course, we would have to finish by shaming ourselves, but if we owned up to it publicly and ruined our own lives it would end the cycle.
In all seriousness though, I am against shaming, especially when the person is accused of a crime in a country that will investigate and punish appropriately. If the crime is committed in a poor country with a corrupt legal system then I can see the justification for shaming.
In the past we would shame the act, but now we are going so much further and trying to permanently ruin peoples lives.
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