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To put it bluntly, the main impulse was shame, the desire to consider oneself a decent person.
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The speaker says the main driving force was shame: a wish to see oneself as a decent person. The sentence suggests that the desire to preserve a moral self-image, rather than some separate practical goal, was the central impulse. “To put it bluntly” signals a deliberately direct and unsparing summary.
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