Cruelty in the Name of Truth: When Exposure Becomes Entertainment and Morality Loses Its Way

Cruelty in the Name of Truth is a calm, unflinching examination of a culture that confuses exposure with justice and outrage with morality.

In an age where private failure is turned into public spectacle, this book asks the question few are willing to face: when did accountability stop being about correction and start becoming about destruction?

Without excusing wrongdoing or minimizing harm, Sam Choo draws a clear moral line between responsibility and cruelty. He reveals how public shaming reshapes behavior, erodes trust, silences honesty, and quietly punishes the innocent, especially families and children who never chose the spotlight. With clarity and restraint, the book exposes how good people are pulled into harmful pile-ons, how moral language becomes a weapon, and why fear of exposure is changing who we are.

This is not a reactionary book. It is a steady, thoughtful reckoning.

Written for readers exhausted by outrage yet unwilling to abandon values, Cruelty in the Name of Truth offers a rare alternative: accountability without humiliation, justice without spectacle, and compassion without compromise.

If we lose mercy, the book argues, we do not become more moral.

We lose ourselves.

Ref: B740. This book contains 23,042 words and 197 words.