Maybe hypocrisy in the sense that someone acts like they agree with the social consensus in order to avoid persecution, when in fact they don’t and are doing things which don’t conform to it. Legalized blackmail would encourage people to not mind their own business and become morality police or witch hunters even about things which don’t actually hurt them or anybody else.
Consider the effect legalized blackmail would have had on the gay community before widespread acceptance for a particularly brutal and relatively recent example
Maybe hypocrisy in the sense that someone acts like they agree with the social consensus in order to avoid persecution, when in fact they don’t and are doing things which don’t conform to it. Legalized blackmail would encourage people to not mind their own business and become morality police or witch hunters even about things which don’t actually hurt them or anybody else.
Consider the effect legalized blackmail would have had on the gay community before widespread acceptance for a particularly brutal and relatively recent example
The Stonewall Riots were triggered by a police raid that was part of a blackmail operation. Does blackmail by the police count as “legal”?