Wit & Wisdom with Tom Greene

The Death of Shame


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There was a time, not so long ago, when shame was a guardrail. It protected us from doing dumb things. But, mostly it protected us from ourselves. But, today, shame is dead. It's the age of moral relativism. That is, the definition of right and wrong is subject to interpretation. That's the kind of thinking that allows young people to have sex in a room full of people while television cameras record every second in high definition through night-vision lenses. Yes, shame is dead. Is it time to bring it back?
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