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  • Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

    "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.