So much of how society works assumes that everyone will feel shame.
- So much of how society works assumes that everyone will feel shame.
- This leaves a wide-open do-anything hack: brazen shamelessness.
- It's possible to ride this hack all the way up to the highest levels of power in society.
- People see them do something brazen and think "If that were as bad as it sounds then they'd never do it so publicly."
- But that assumes the person feels shame and isn't acting brazenly.
- Those same brazen activities, if they were originally hidden and then became known all at once later, would be a discontinuous shock that would demand a response.
- Our defense of assuming shame will limit actions only works if the attacker is locked to the same assumption.