Comment by BJones12

What an idiotic article.

> Someone posted the footage online. A pile-up ensued. And their lives were turned upside down.

No, they created a situation where their lives would inevitably be turned upside down, and one of many possible triggers was hit.

> any of us might, for any particular reason, become... flawed people in the wrong place at the wrong time

No, they are people who chose to break their word to their spouses, and to break the social contract.

> the viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance, and control.

Shame is how a society polices its members without violence. Shame is good because it leaves the parties healthier than the alternative. They deserved to be shamed.

> An obsession with other people’s private lives is a sickness.

No, it has been the normal state of humans for probably as long as humans have existed. Humans survive in groups.