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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (62736)10/16/2002 12:14:17 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Shame has value in that it implies modesty, respect for others, an awareness of one's own limitations. This, I think, is the kind of shame that we learn as an inevitable part of growing up, of becoming a civilized adult instead of a wild child.

It seems perverse to me to frame modesty, humility, a sense of perspective about oneself as a subset of shame. I don't see the utility of having good shame and bad shame. It makes more sense to me to have modesty as one species and shame another.
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