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Gossip, Shoptalk, and Small Talk - part
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· Gossip, Shoptalk, and Small Talk - part
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Scandal is the shock or disapproval expressed in talk over the misdoings of anyone, be he humble or famous, near or far. Oscar Wilde cleverly said, "Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." However, he is wrong in designating gossip as made tedious by morality. Juvenal more correctly wrote,
. . . there's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame.
Wilde, who himself was finally ruined by a scandal, should more correctly have said, not that it is made tedious by morality, but that it is the terror of the wicked. It is generally a greater deterrent to wrongdoing than the police or the dungeon. The fear that "people will talk" has kept more girls virgins than the fear of the maternity ward. Scandal is the vote of the people against sin. There is, therefore, some value in it. No tyranny can stop it, no dictatorship can ultimately withstand it. It is a sort of mob judgment on sin, or what the age and clime conceives as sin. It tends to keep one's neighbor proper and one's congressman respectable. But like all mob action, it is arbitrary, ruthless, frequently misdirected.
Yet one need not altogether abstain from expressing shock and condemnation of public wrongdoing which comes to one's attention. Silence might even be construed as approval. St. Paul, hearing that one among the Corinthians was guilty of incest, rebuked them collectively for not reproving it, and expelling the man guilty of such a deed from their company (1 Cor. 5:1, 2). But before acting scandalized, one must sternly ask one's self, "Is it true? Is it as serious as it is represented? Is it truly an offense against the moral law, and not a perhaps wholesome breach of prejudice? Is the offense a public concern, or strictly a private matter?" If the answer to these questions cannot be an unqualified affirmative, a good conversationalist will have none of it. If the scandal will tend to induce others to imitate it rather than avoid it, he will suppress it. If the sin was one that but for some metaphorical wire tapping would not be known and should not concern the public, he will suppress talk of it.
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 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.
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