Should Public Humiliation be used to correct bad mental behavior?

Your mother is an absolute cunt, full stop. The normal, sane thing to do would be to talk to the woman AFTER church, not in the fucking middle of it, and to be nice about it.

Publicly humiliating someone can have the opposite effect. If bystanders feel that your attempt to do so is unjustified or beyond what the situation calls for, you'll be at the end of their ire, not your target, and isn't that just a wonderful twisting of expectations?
 
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What your mum did seems like an asshole thing to do. There are some behaviors where they could really benefit from shaming instead of being enabled and having no filter. But with a tic like Tourettes or some disorder I would not pick on them.
 
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8777BB5 said:
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.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but your mom sounds like an antisocial reetard. I'm all for correcting people with very annoying habits so that they might fix their awful behavior, but doing it publicly like this was very douchy.

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.
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This part is the worst thing of all about your mother. She's annoyed by this person's shitty habits so her response is to withhold money from the youth group? What an ass! It's hard to believe that your mother is a real person though I try not to underestimate the stupidity of other people.
 
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Apoth42 said:
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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Japanese culture has a shitload of other problems tho
 
Thelostcup said:
How well did it ever work out for Chris?

Not including all the times he publicly humiliated himself.
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This, public humiliation won't work if it's on people like Chris Chan cause look at how it's worked out for him now, but if it were on rather malicious people such as Blue "I had phone sex with an autistic manchild at age 13" Spike, then I would be okay with it if it isn't too severe.

I may sound like a moralfag, so I'll scurry back to my fedora tipping.
 
Public humiliation should be used as an escalatory device if a person clearly fails to change their behaviour after candid and polite warnings. Embarrassment and humiliation employ the same neural circuits as grievous pain, so I look at humiliation (with its lack of risk of injury or death) as the next step down from those mechanisms of enforcing discipline, and also am not willing to employ it until it becomes clear that more than a warning is necessary to encourage a change.

I once knew a mid-40s spergy type who had an infuriating habit of breathing in forcefully between his teeth every time he finished a sentence. Thankfully I had a chance to speak to him and make him aware that a lot of people were annoyed by his habit alongside his tendency to arbitrarily talk about anime or make obscure references every twenty words, and he turned out to be receptive to it. Quickly fixed his shit up, and despite his obnoxious traits he was quite a cool guy to have around for game nights and such, which I doubt he'd have been as willing to do if I'd have castigated him in front of a dozen or so colleagues.
 
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