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I would call modesty one of the “false positive” qualities.
It is often presented as a virtue and virtue, but it does not bring any benefit to anyone, because it is a form of lying, i.e. reporting inferior information. If a person hides their strengths, their strengths and their achievements, then they harm both themselves, distorting the image of themselves for the worse, thus closing some opportunities for themselves, and others, misleading them and blocking them from using their skills and abilities to achieve higher goals.
Another such quality, in my opinion, is “chastity” and pseudo-morality, mixed with sex negativism, which are just hypocrisy.
Society encourages those feelings and qualities that allow you to benefit from a person, to manage him.�
Feelings of guilt and shame, conscientiousness are held in high esteem because if a person experiences them, then they can be manipulated and forced to do what is required.
Generosity, kindness, selflessness, and empathy are encouraged – because in this case, a person is ready to benefit other members of society for free.
Honesty, reliability, and sincerity are encouraged – in this case, you can negotiate with a person and rely on them.
Those qualities that allow a person to be independent and free from imposed social norms (unscrupulousness, immorality, dissent, stubbornness, stubbornness) are not encouraged. Such a person is very difficult to manipulate. It is difficult for him to impose a sense of guilt, he does not perceive the imposed stereotypes, he does not care about morality and public opinion.
Also, qualities that do not allow using a person for profit (greed, pettiness, greed) are not encouraged.
When they say “shame on you”, this does not mean that anything unreasonable and unhealthy feeling of shame is passed off as something good.
This means that a person should be able to give an account of his actions, be aware of the essence of his act, and understand his guilt where he really did it.
So modesty is not about belittling your strengths and qualities.
Modesty is restraint, lack of braggadocio, arrogance, outrageousness.
Why brag and make yourself look like you don't know what? An adequate person is modest and self-respecting.
“Bigotry is an ostentatious form of piety and piety with secret or obvious disloyalty to the professed ideas. A kind of moral formalism and hypocrisy. As Noam Chomsky writes, a hypocrite is someone who applies standards to others that he refuses to apply to himself”
– Wikipedia
And what does chastity have to do with it?
“Chastity (apparently a tracing paper from sofrosyune, Greek σωφροσύνη + σώφρων) is a moral virtue that means control of sexual desires”
Is it bad to be able to control yourself?
At the first instinctive desire, you need to jump into bed with the first person you meet, and this will be moral for you then?
So what do you mean by sex negativism?
Is it possible that absolutely any communication with anyone, with anything, and in any way should be morally acceptable for a person?
Let's then and child molestation, and incest, and human intercourse with animals is acceptable, why not?
Well, be unconscionable to your health. Only it really doesn't do much good, or to be more precise, it doesn't do anything at all. You call black white, and white black. A person who is unscrupulous and immoral is called a moral freak. A complete lack of shame is a pathology, because a healthy person has adequate self-criticism and feels a healthy sense of guilt when he really did something wrong. Unhealthy feelings of guilt and shame are a completely different conversation.
If for you the standard of an independent and free person is an immoral and low egoist who has no moral values, no shame, no conscience, who is capable of any meanness and dirt without tormenting your conscience, then most likely you are like that yourself.
It is sad that the morality of society falls lower and lower over time, and immorality, consumerism, boredom, debauchery and selfishness begin to be encouraged.
Sorry, but it seems to me that the logic in your question is technically a little broken.
I wouldn't say that the very phrase “shame on you” is encouraging some abstract “good quality.”
“Shame on you” is a censure and reproach, an indirect (and, perhaps, direct) indication of a mistake, misdemeanor, blunder, etc. This is exactly what they say to shame, to cause feelings of guilt. What's so good about it?
Another thing is that the presence of this very “shame”, that is, the ability to critically evaluate one's behavior, feel guilty and repent, can be regarded as a positive quality in a certain context. It's worse when you don't have one.
1. For example, wadded patriotism is biased and unfounded.
2. Also putting the interests of the family and other people above their own.
3. Go head over heels to reach your goals.