When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?
Why do some people so revile our passive feelings, and so venerate hypocrisy?
Why do some people so revile our passive feelings, and so venerate hypocrisy?
Because it helps coerce others into doing things that benefit us and reduces how much force is exercised upon us while trading off the minimal amount of altruistic action necessary. There wouldn't (usually) be much point having altruistic principles and publicly reviling them.
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