In Japan, they have a term Mura Hachibu that apparently signifies when someone is ostracized and shunned from society for doing something really bad and abhorrent. I have never lived in Japan so I only know about it and have heard about it, don’t really know how it works. But in the USA it kind of seems like you can do all sorts of horrible, bad things, and there’s no real societal consequence for it… If you need any evidence of this, just look at Matt Gaetz. People literally hate this guy, in Congress and outside of it. Some people call him a child predator don’t know if it’s actually true or not and honestly don’t care to discuss it here but You would think that people that do terrible, horrible things would get put on a list and that list would be passed around society So people can be actively aware that they should avoid them, and restrict them from participating in society due to their terrible actions…

So why isn’t this ever done in the USA? Has this ever been considered, or is this like not a good thing to do?

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
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    Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, huh?

    Terrible Americans who we’ve shunned include:

    Jeffrey Epstein

    Harvey Weinstein

    Charles Manson

    Edit: I asked ChatGPT for more examples:

    Bernie Madoff

    Ted Bundy

    Bill Cosby (debatable, he has his defenders)

    Aaron Burr

    Charles Ponzi

    Benedict Arnold

    John Wilkes Booth

    Elizabeth Holmes

    Jared Fogle (lol)

    Martin Shkreli

    Jeffrey Dahmer

    Terrible Japanese people who weren’t shunned:

    Hirohito

    Shiro Ishii, Other 731 leaders

    Nobusuke Kishi

    Issei Sagawa

    Shoko Asawara

    A number of Yakuza leaders

    Takeshi Kitano

    Junya Sano