The social motive for hypocrisy is to please authority, appear superior, and gain benefits without doing the inner work the words claim.
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Benefit
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "To show that you're better than others, that you are airy and kind of like, I'm better than everybody else. I'm more religious."
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"To show that you're better than others, that you are airy and kind of like, I'm better than everybody else. I'm more religious."
"...stuff. Just try to, on the one hand, you get a benefit from that. And on the other, they will try to cheat others..."
"Okay. Well, let's say you're a teacher, okay? And you're telling your students, okay, we need to work hard and read a lot of..."
"...the interior. And then the ultimate goal is to like get benefits by kind of like pretending to be like a better person."
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