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Perhaps you should read what Paul Graham has to say about "things you can't say." http://www.paulgraham.com/s...

His essay has a number of salient points. The one I think you are looking for is the paragraph about "moral fashions." Here are his first two paragraphs:

"Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself andbeen embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actuallydress like that? We did. And we had no idea howsilly we looked.It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in thesame way the movement of the earth is invisible to allof us riding on it.

What scares me is that there are moral fashions too.They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people.But they're much more dangerous.Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good.Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violatingmoral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, oreven killed."

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