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I agree with this; I value my privacy extremely highly not because I would punish/ostracize them if I caught someone else doing them, but because other people may be, from my perspective, completely unreasonable, and I don't want to risk them punishing-ostracizing me for the crime of being perfectly decent. It's the same reason one approaches religion and politics delicately in polite conversation.

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That's because it fosters too much instability. But if you have an implicit hypocrisy (usually not entirely a conscious one) where everyone is on roughly the same page, then it can be quite stable - just like flattering someone without any intention that they should beleive you mean it.

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