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Why do you feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated by the actions of corrupt authorities? You're presumably not one of them, but you're reacting like you are.

I don't know what happened, but the common understanding of "mortify" seems to have become corrupted at some point in the last 20 years or so.

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    That sense makes sense. Yep, we're not exactly a species with a resilient level of functionality.