Should Public Humiliation be used to correct bad mental behavior?

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There's a woman at my parents church who has a rather annoying habit of clearing her throat after every sentence she speaks. It's a habit she picked up in childhood to help her deal with her social anxiety but it gets super annoying really quickly, particularly if she has to give a long speech.

While I don't know the exact details of what happened, on Sunday my mom (Who already has a very low tolerance for exceptional individuals on any spectrum) let the woman have it right in front of the whole church and then announced that she and my dad would not be funding the Youth group mission trip until the woman got therapy to deal with her condition. Needless to say the woman wound up running away crying her eyes out. However from what I heard, she is planning on meeting with a psychiatrist to help with the issue as the Preacher has told her she needs to get help.

So I'm curious: Should Public Humiliation be used as a way of correcting bad behavior?
 
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Plenty of cows we follow could really use that kind of treatment. After all, it's what they try to do when they whip up Twitter fury at some random company for employing a cis man instead of a pansexual neurodivergent nonbinary black sexworker.

It won't happen, though, because apparently we're not supposed to tell people either that they're wrong, or the word 'no' any more.
 
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Depends. They can be mentally scarring and only create more problems than they solve.

That’s not to say martial punishment is also out of the question, in reasonable amounts.
 
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Public shaming would definitely help a lot in certain situations but throwing a public spotlight on someone over some minor irritant, in a church no less, just seems weird on your mom's behalf. That's not a public shame-worthy scenario that taking her aside and saying "you have a really distracting, obnoxious tic" couldn't fix.
 
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ICametoLurk said:
Yes, as Public Use.
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Like how the English Puritans or the Talibans forced the entire local community to witness public punishments of sinners, so as not only to correct the behavior of the sinner, but also to serve a secondary role in inculcating and reinforcing the same moral judgment in the minds of the populace at large? The edifying utility of public punishment is something that still survives in America today, albeit in a vestigial form. I think most states that still exercise the death penalty have a requirement that at least one witness from the public (i.e. not a member of the press and not related to the criminal case at hand) must be present to observe the execution, otherwise it cannot go forth. I read somewhere that these states all have a kind of voluntary sign-up roster for members of the public interested in witnessing executions, and a lot of adrenaline junkies and morbid curiosity obsessed people sign up for them.
 
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Why is Japan the only country not experiencing an obesity crisis?

China has those precious asian genes and yet they become fatasses. Asian people in Canada and the USA also become fatasses.

It's all about the culture and more specifically Japans culture of people being held to standards.
 
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It could work on some people (specifically those that are asking for it, usually) but it can also have the opposite effect, making matters worse. The case that you present? Apart from that it seems too minor if an issue at all, the fact that this treatment worked is more likely due to chance, the outcome could have been much worse and awkward than a more polite and fair approach, and it might still backfire in the long run, depending on how stable that woman is. Also, aside from the fact that your mom humiliated a person with an actual mental issue beyond their control, she used the funding of a mission trip as blackmail? Really now?
 
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There's a difference between shaming bad behavior and tolerating/understanding annoying adaptive behavior of someone struggling to cope with a problem.
Here's an example of the first:
https://nypost.com/2018/04/03/obnox...ck-to-coach-after-helping-herself-to-upgrade/[

Would your mother have done this to you or your father if either of you were in the woman's place?
Love covers a multiple of faults.
Shame on your mother.
 
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