Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Well quite. It ignores the fact that public shame is a tremendous tool for regulating excessive, aberrant or damaging behaviour - one that society has employed for millennia. Of course there were areas where it was inappropriate, but I can't help but feel we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Once you remove shame, it's hardly to be wondered at that damaging behaviours proliferate.
Of course there was a time when a chap who was drawn to put his peter in other chaps’ dung would have done so discreetly, to avoid shaming and chemical castration. Then David Cameron decided that a man can marry a man.

It is a sick world. Thanks Dave.