times editorial board was widely criticized. you might even say shamed for writing this. americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions and public without fear of being shamed or shunned. there is of course no such a fundamental right. the constitution grants to the right to say whatever you want, but it does not grant you any control at all over other people s reactions to what you say. and there is no constitutional guarantee that you are going to feel good about what you say after you have said it. this week, in her debut essay as an opinion columnist for the new york times titled what s shame got to do with it, this
you are going to feel good about what you say after you have said it. this week, in her debut essay as an opinion columnist for the new york times titled what s shame got to do with it, this woman says that shame can quote, be functionally good, like when it keeps your pants on in public. despite the bad wrap that shame gets in are overly psycho analyzed culture, it is merely a feedback loop that tells you something about your behavior as well as the expectations of others. it is bizarre to think that we should legislate, regulate, or condition away an emotion. the new york times editorial board last month considered it a great social problem that 55% of people in a poll quote said that they had held their tongue over the past year because they were concerned about retaliation or harsh criticism. but times had no idea what word that came to those tongues was being held by those people. how many of them were choosing not to say the and word? how many of them were choosing not to say tha