Gossip, Shoptalk, and Small Talk : Page 248

He will also be keenly conscious of the fact that people's mob judgments are not necessarily synonymous with correct moral theology. It was the people who preferred Barabbas the thief to Jesus the denouncer of the eye-for-an-eye principle. People have been known to be more shocked when a girl smoked than when a man committed adultery. They are often more aroused against a conscientious objector than against a bank-robber. They have been known to be more scandalized to see a Negro and a Caucasian dance together than to learn that their ' 'respectable" neighbors committed abortion. One must analyze the scandal, and if it is not in