I’m more in favor of public rebuking, humiliation, shame, and shunning myself. Do it yourself. You would prefer to call the cops on your child if he/she started shacking up rather than dealing with it yourself?
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Stocks!
GK Chesterton wrote about this in The Superstition of Divorce. I’m usually a moron when it comes to remembering stuff I read but this stuck with me.
“As a matter of fact, instead of invading the family with the blundering bureaucracy that mismanages the public services, it would be far more philosophical to work the reform the other way round. It would be really quite as reasonable to alter the laws of the nation so as to resemble the laws of the nursery. The punishments would be far less horrible, far more humorous, and far more really calculated to make men feel they had made fools of themselves. It would be a pleasant change if a judge, instead of putting on the black cap, had to put on the dunce’s cap; or if we could stand a financier in his own corner.”