Enforcing social norms: the morality of public shaming
Public shaming plays an important role in upholding valuable social norms. But, under what conditions, if any, is it morally justifiable? Our aim in this paper is systemically to investigate the morality of public shaming, so as to provide an answer to this neglected question. We develop an overarch...
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2020
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| description | Public shaming plays an important role in upholding valuable social norms. But, under what conditions, if any, is it morally justifiable? Our aim in this paper is systemically to investigate the morality of public shaming, so as to provide an answer to this neglected question. We develop an overarching framework for assessing the justifiability of this practice, which shows that, while shaming can sometimes be morally justifiable, it very often is not. In turn, our framework highlights several reasons to be concerned about the increasingly widespread phenomenon of online public shaming. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2fb0dba7-e22e-4204-b3ac-9fe4f7ff63632022-04-14T07:43:29ZEnforcing social norms: the morality of public shamingJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:2fb0dba7-e22e-4204-b3ac-9fe4f7ff6363EnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2020Billingham, PParr, TPublic shaming plays an important role in upholding valuable social norms. But, under what conditions, if any, is it morally justifiable? Our aim in this paper is systemically to investigate the morality of public shaming, so as to provide an answer to this neglected question. We develop an overarching framework for assessing the justifiability of this practice, which shows that, while shaming can sometimes be morally justifiable, it very often is not. In turn, our framework highlights several reasons to be concerned about the increasingly widespread phenomenon of online public shaming. |
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| title | Enforcing social norms: the morality of public shaming |
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