That's quite a theory. It's like the old fashioned elitist theory that hypocrisy is necessary to keep the hoi polloi in line, except apparently applied to everyone.
Or not? Do you think you are made more useful to yourself and others by reviling your feelings and being hypocritical about your values?
That's quite a theory.
The standard one. I was stating the obvious, not being controversial.
Do you think you are made more useful to yourself and others by reviling your feelings and being hypocritical about your values?
I never said I did so. (And where did this 'useful to others' thing come in? That's certainly not something I'd try to argue for. The primary point of the hypocrisy is to reduce the amount that you actually spend helping others, for a given level of professed ideals.)
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