No, I get what you're saying. We like drama. Nothing new under the sun. But there's clearly levels of interest, and a list of people who skipped out on their gym membership early is not going to generate as much interest as a list of adulterers, and that goes back to what Aife was trying to say. And your response seemed to me like it was totally discrediting that aspect of it and making it seem like it's all about breakin' contracts, and, again, I find that dishonest.
I also find a lot of your post to be sort of glorifying the gossip and the shaming, which, again, if you want to just say, "Yeah, this is fun to me, I'm not sympathetic," then that's fine, there's probably people more deserving of your sympathy, but there's something odorous to me about attempts to make it seem like we're doing humanity a favor here and that this is a really good thing for society. We're rubbernecking as we pass a few car crashes.
There's a lot of human behavior that you can water down by saying, "well, from an evolutionary standpoint...," including cheating, interestingly enough. We like drama, we like seeing bad stuff happen to people we don't like. Cool. That's human, I can forgive that. But let's be honest. That's what it is. We're not saving society by spelunking the Ashley Madison hack list.
This ties in with this question:
So what do we need to trust Hamza Tortoise for ...in the first place?
With both him and Josh Duggar, the thing they are making their money from is peddling religion, which is a lot like selling snake oil except you don't need to produce a physical product and don't need to answer any questions about your claims if your product fails tests. His job, the thing he makes his money from, is that he is a salesman, and his only real-world product is his personal credibility. So people who accept his personal credibility buy his larger claims, his God claims, and that is his source of revenue. That is why it is an issue that his personal credibility is a faulty product.
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