This was one among five questions on an assignment my son had to complete for his communications class ... Talk about heady psychological stuff ... and on a three-day weekend, too. Oh well, adventure traveling with a friend can wait for yet another more opportune time.
A labor of love our discussion was; and no, we never did quite answer that specific question as it is formulated ... I see shame as something we do to ourselves and not anything others could have done to bring shame on us. With regards to my son, about the only situation that will have brought me deeply felt shamefulness is to have nurtured and raised an interpersonally manipulative and exploitive narcissist or a remorseless egocentric who want, want and want, and see people as objects to be manipulated or pieces to be controlled, used, and discarded.
Thank goodness I awake every morning seeing and knowing that my son is growing further away from becoming those types of people—my definition of the original "evil" people. There had been too many teeth-grinding and bullets-sweating nights when I felt trapped in a never-ending nightmare just thinking how my child may ended up becoming and living his life deceiving others ...
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