“Forget about how this impacts people like the CEO and his mistress, garden-variety sinners who, through a combination of terrible luck and atrocious judgment, will be famous, and hated, for the rest of their lives. You don’t have to feel sorry for them (although I admit, I kind of do; there are literal mass murderers who enjoy more anonymity and less opprobrium than these two). If there’s a truly compelling reason not to normalize shaming as a global, always-on public spectator sport, it’s not that it degrades the humanity of the shamed; it’s not even the trite ‘who among us has not canoodled at a Coldplay concert with his sidepiece’ justification. It’s simply this: When we take joy in the distress and ruination of other people, we make monsters of ourselves.” —@KatRosenfield
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