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fact based on the moral law but on a prejudice, one must try to counteract it, not express shock with the mob. If it is a comparatively minor delinquency, one may not accept a reaction to it as if it were a criminal matter sufficient to deprive the guilty forever of his good name or position. Still another danger is that certain scandals take on a kind of glamour. Certain sins found in successful people, such as movie stars for example, when talked about very much, tend to decline rather than to wax in heinousness. Rather than be deterred by the scandal, some will rather begin to think, "If everybody's doing it, why might not I? If such a star can get away with it, except for a little talk which does not make him poorer, then why might not I?" As the poet Pope truly and beautifully says, |
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