Private behavior with family and friends is about passionate love, togetherness, trust and self-sacrifice for shared good.

Public behavior with strangers is about dispassionate respect, separateness, caution and self-interest for unshared good.

Both behaviors are indispensable.
But behaviors from one in the realm of the other causes blurring, confusion, and conflict.

For instance, in our time it's widely believed that private behavior in the public realm is desirable, and that governments should therefore require it.

Some results follow.
Private obligates public.
"๐™„๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ ๐™š๐™จ ๐™– ๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™–๐™œ๐™š".
Public obligates private.
"๐™’๐™š ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™ซ๐™š๐™จ".
Public disrespects private.
"๐™”๐™ค๐™ช ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™ช๐™ž๐™ก๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ".
Shared envies unshared.
"๐™’๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™๐™–๐™ญ".
Self-sacrifice dominates self-interest.
"๐™’๐™š'๐™ง๐™š ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™œ๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง".
Caution blindly trusts.
"๐™„๐™ฉ'๐™ก๐™ก ๐˜ฝ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™›๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š".
Separateness masquerades as togetherness.
"๐™Š๐™ช๐™ง ๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐™„๐™จ ๐™Š๐™ช๐™ง ๐™Ž๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ฉ๐™".
Respect pretends love.
"๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™œ ๐˜ฝ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™‡๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™จ ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช".
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