The Daily Bell:
“Behind closed doors much would be tolerated. But public displays, especially “immoral” ones, would be frowned upon.”
Exactly.
The most civilized world will be a world with marked boundaries between the private and the public. This would allow for the maximum of individual, idiosyncratic behavior expressing different people’s minority opinions/cultures, peculiar temperaments, unique problems, astrological aspects, familial complexes, personal traumas, and genetic/racial heritages, while allowing for the decorum and public culture most suited to the majority tradition.
Indeed, most traditional Asian cultures followed this model until recently. Well before my teens were over or the Indian market and culture had been opened up to the globalists across the board, I came across transvestites, lesbians, eunuchs, hermaphrodites, occultists, and non-conformists of all kinds, who lived with a fair degree of freedom because they didn’t feel the need to become an avenger on society at large for their differences from the mainstream.
No one I knew even thought much of any of these differences. They simply existed. One noted it, sometimes with giggles….among the mean-spirited, with scorn, but since the mean at heart are scornful even of mainstream differences, their opinion hardly mattered to good people…and actually earned their targets more favor in everyone else’s eyes.
Individual morality is not simply hard to judge in public, it is impossible.
Public (legal) infractions and criminal wrong-doing (where there is a public concern) are another thing. But even in those cases, there are such things as statutes of limitations. The idea that public shaming should be eternal – as it is, with the net – is something only those religious sects which rejoice in the eternal torment of sinners would countenance.
And even so, the eternal torments of the religious usually needed two separate “judgments,” if I recall it right.
On the net, mostly, such infamy follows without thought of any kind, let alone judgment.