J prompt hon corresponding to refer to my recent post on the relationship between politeness and hypocrisy. (See here) because I do not see the moment much to say.
I can enjoy any time to reproduce the text of Schopenhauer, for those who would not read online:
Pigs porcupines
"On a cold winter day a herd of porcupines had put in a tight group to ensure mutually cons jelly by their own heat. But soon they felt any damage to their spines, which made them differ from each other. When the need to warm was close again, the same problem occurred again, so they were tossed to and fro between two evils until they finally found an average distance they makes the situation bearable. Thus, the need, born of emptiness and monotony of their inner life, drives men toward each other 1ES, but their many ways of being unpleasant and intolerable defects disperse them again. The average distance and they eventually discover that living together becomes possible, politeness and good manners. In England they cry to someone who does not hold at this distance: Keep your distance ! By this means the need to warm up is, indeed, only half satisfied, but, in contrast, does not feel the injury of quills. But who has enough inner warmth own rather stay outside of the company not to feel discomfort or cause injury. "
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena