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"He didn't consider it begging because he was charging people money in exchange for the service of providing philosophical wisdom." I once thought that shame and confidence were on either side of a continuum. But now that I analyze the sheer magnitude of Diogenes' confidence in comparison to mine, I believe shame and confidence to be independent of each other.
I am pretty sure all those leaders were warned beforehand of his odd insulting behavior. The leeway he had suggests he was noticably "internally conflicted" In those times they might have thought he was punished by the gods. Which made him touched by the gods, even if it was a slap in the face.