Mayor Len Brown and Bevan Chuang.
Opinion
Whenever a public figure suffers humiliation or disgrace because of a personal failing, we are quick to judge.
We are entitled to our opinions, since we exercise them as taxpayers, ratepayers, shareholders or stakeholders.
One of the virtues of our Western democracy is that every person from billionaire to beneficiary
has the right to exercise an opinion of equal value. That's as it should be, and our free access to media, to talkback and social media enables us to do so. This is a privilege that is not shared throughout the world and we undervalue it because we have never known anything else.
In the case of Auckland Mayor Len Brown's indiscretion, a reader poll on nzherald.co.nz found a majority thinks he should resign.
Although I come from the other side of the political divide, I hope he doesn't.
