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On 05/11/2025 09:31 am, The Todal wrote:
> On 05/11/2025 09:02, Norman Wells wrote:
>> The Todal Wrote in message:r
>>> On 04/11/2025 16:30, Norman Wells wrote:> The Todal
>>> Wrote in message:
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>>>> > He is experiencing very public disgrace and being virtually>
>>>> ostracised by his family. Obviously he will feel shame. Wouldn't you?
>>
>>>> For what exactly? Why do you seem so reluctant to be specific?
>>
>>> I think this may be a question of semantics.If you were stripped
>>> naked, placed in the stocks in your town and everyone came to jeer at
>>> you and throw rotten vegetables at you, I think what you would be
>>> experiencing would be "shame". What other word can you think would be
>>> more appropriate? Or has your imagination failed you?
>>
>> It rather depends on whether I'd done anything illegal. If not,
>> I'd be angry and resentful. As I think anyone would.
>>
>> Do please say specifically what he is supposed to have done that
>> warrants the supposedly shameful punishment that has been meted
>> out to him. Don't be shy any more.
>
> And again, I think you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
>
> Shame is what a person experiences when they are humiliated by the world
> - even if that humiliation is undeserved, as I believe Andrew's probably
> is. Thus, the postmasters convicted of theft from the post office felt
> shame and public humiliation even though they knew they had done nothing
> wrong.
>
> In the rather disgraceful Panorama programme last night, only one good
> friend of Andrew's, Lady Victoria Hervey, courageously spoke up for him
> in an interview. A series of other well known faces including the awful
> Dame Margaret Hodge told us that Andrew was in their opinion rude, vain,
> extravagant, stupid, fully deserving of his fate. Panorama was a
> hatchet-job to reassure us that Andrew deserves his humiliation and that
> in the whole world he only has one friend, the supposedly gullible Lady
> Victoria.
Thank you for that - I shall try to catch that programme later today.
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