She just came right out and announced shamelessness

From I've got another example of the eco-shame-contortion genre. by Ann Althouse. She's on a roll.

Yesterday, we were looking at "How Guilty Should You Feel About Your Vacation?/And what can you do about it?" by Seth Kugel (in the NYT), which I called "a terrible, execrable column." And today, I'm confronted with another example of what I'm going to recognize as a genre because I'm expecting to see more and more of these awful columns. Progressives who want to claim that they are good when it comes to the problem of climate change want to resist what it really means for them as they live in this world with their desires and comforts and money and longing for their little corner of luxury. What's really causing them anxiety is flight shaming.

She quotes from Kate Cohen's preening essay.

That is to say: Don't fly. Come on. If you believe what you say you believe, you know damned well that you should not fly. Not for business. Not for pleasure. Nothing! The world is at stake. Stop. Just stop. But no. Articles must be written, and I intend to become a connoisseur of this ludicrous genre.

She quotes some more and then comments.

If you can't argue with that, what are you doing? It sounds like arguing with that. Or are you saying you know perfectly well that your behavior is immoral — no argument there — it's just that you're choosing to do it anyway?

You're not thinking much, but you are thinking out loud. In WaPo. And presumably not ashamed to say what you are saying.

[snip]

All she's saying is, I know the difference between right and wrong and I'm not going to do what I know is right. She didn't engage with the problem of shame. She just came right out and announced shamelessness. Shamelessness and pride — pride that she's better than those people who don't even know the difference between right and wrong and the people who think we don't always need government compulsion, that there's a place for private morality.