Is Embarrassment Bad? (HOS137)

We take on a controversial subject today by request. Stace and I are aware of occasionally using real life situations as examples that may trigger embarrassment in people, even though we don’t mention them by name. So what’s the deal with that? Is that mature, ethical? How do we make that work metaphysically? Do we succeed, or is it a complex justification for being mean? You decide, of course?

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