Is Shame Good

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Is Shame Good or Bad? Shame is a very strange feeling and affects different people in different ways. Shame is the feeling of humiliation caused by the consciousness of what that person believes to be wrong or foolish. Society uses shame to make people feel a certain way. There is people in the world that shame other people just because it makes them feel better about themselves. The person being shamed has the toughest decision to make. When someone starts to shame them, they can ignore it and use it as motivation to be better, or they can let it get the best of them and destroy them. Society sometimes uses shame against certain groups to seclude them from the rest. People that can take shame and use it as motivation to be better are going …show more content…

Most people who are poor, are born into a poor family and never get out of it. Society never thinks about this before they start making fun of the poor person. If they are poor there isn’t many ways out of it. There are ways you can help it, but they will never have a lot of money in most cases. Society doesn’t care about poverty though, they just pick on them probably because they were born into a better situation than the poor person. The poor person can’t let society get the best of them. They may not have it the best but there is a way to get through it. If the poor doesn’t do anything society will push them further away because being friends with a poor person is thought to be not cool sometimes. The poor gets pushed around worse than any other group because they don’t have money and they let society destroy them. The poor believe they don’t belong because society is ruthless. The one way out of being poor, is being a hard worker. That is the best character trait anyone can have. If the poor is willing to be a hard worker and do work, then they can make a living for themselves. Then use those people who bashed them as motivation to want to do that hard

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