It can be tempting to shame those you disagree with, especially given that it seems to work. You advertise your disdain for drug users, prostitutes, and sexual deviants. You slander anti-communists as selfish capitalist pigs who hate the poor. You mock your ideological foes on social media.
I have to disagree, and disagree specifically with the example you present. It is often the case that an addicted relative understands very well that their addiction is bad for them but since explanation in and by itself does not always provide strong permanent motivation to quit, they choose to continue indulging in doing drugs. Now, if there is constant fear for them of being exposed to the public judgment (given that they care at all which is also not always the case with addicts), that may add to the explanation-induced motivation and effectively stop them from sliding back into harmful behavior.
I have to disagree, and disagree specifically with the example you present. It is often the case that an addicted relative understands very well that their addiction is bad for them but since explanation in and by itself does not always provide strong permanent motivation to quit, they choose to continue indulging in doing drugs. Now, if there is constant fear for them of being exposed to the public judgment (given that they care at all which is also not always the case with addicts), that may add to the explanation-induced motivation and effectively stop them from sliding back into harmful behavior.