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Comment author: sam0345 28 August 2011 02:36:33AM 4 points [-]

While the example is basically correct, I fear it might kill more minds than enlighten then.

By doing this you basically force breach a compartment in someone's mind.

It is difficult to address the issue of sincere versus pretended socially desirable beliefs without reference to the individual consequences thereof, which needs a reference, however delicate and indirect, to particular consequences that happened to some particular individual, a reference to events that happened to a particular individual that would not have happened if socially desirable beliefs had been true.