Re: One of those strange phone calls

["Bill" <billnomailnospamx@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> With social media so prevalent today, I wonder why names of
>> offenders
>> don't appear on Facebook and Twitter. Being chastised or shunned by
>> your peers can be a strong motivator to change behaviour  (yes, I
>> also
>> see the great dangers in this approach)
>
> I am glad you see that.  When I first started to read this I had a
> flashback to listening to an acquaintance rationalize the behavior
> of him and his church for shunning a young woman for having a child
> out of wedlock.  I'm not kidding.  This was contemporary relatively.
> I think it was in the early 1990s.  She claimed she had been raped,
> but they shunned her anyway.  Turns out it was true, and the church
> stopped shunning her.  His rationalization was that he thought it
> made her stronger.  I could tell even he struggled with that one.
>
> Social stigma by a jury of the general public running on gut
> feelings and incomplete information might just have its risks
> dontcha think.
>

Hopefully she learned that those people and those like them are not
her friends.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you!