Why Shame Is Bad

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People often get shame for the crime they do. Sometimes the shame get’s shown around the world and other times by friends. When people do a crime and get caught for doing it then they will have to do something that would embarrass them. People get punished in ways that everyone will find out. Sometimes Shame is bad because if it happened in school or work people could make fun or you. Shame should be used if the crime is bad, if it's a small crime that didn't do much or hurt anyone that much then those people shouldn't get a huge shame put on them. Like if you get in a small fight you shouldn't have a big shame put on you and have the whole world know what happened because of social media.

Public shame is effective in many ways like “an Arkansas judge makes shoplifters walk in front of the stores they stole from and carry signs admitting their crimes”. So this shame is effective because people would embarrass you for committing shoplifting. People might do the same for other crimes like this one. Another effective shame is, when a girl named Kaylee “had been teasing another fourth grader about her appearance.” So the teachers gave Kaylee public shame in …show more content…

Like when Charles and Julio got in a fight at school and the principal made them hold hands for a half hour. A girl who saw this said, “Kids were laughing at them and calling them names asking, are you gay.” They started getting bullied for this punishment and was skipping school. People could have so much going on about this and would skip school just because of the bullying and humiliation. So this kind of shame is just rude. People also would take pictures and stories about the shame and post it for the world to see. “Images of the boy’s holding hands and covering their faces was instantly passed around on Facebook.” So this kind of shame can get out of hand and the whole world now knows what

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