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  1. See John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty," in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Vol. XVIII, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), ch. 4, para. 6.

  2. Ibid., ch. 4, para. 5.

  3. Ibid., ch. 4, para. 6.

  4. See John Stuart Mill, "Utilitarianism," in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Vol. X, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969), ch. 3, paras. 3-4.

  5. See H. J. N. Horsburgh, "Moral Black- and Whitemail," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 18, 1975, p. 30.

  6. Mill, "On Liberty," ch. 4, para. 5.

  7. Ferdinand D. Schoeman, Privacy and Social Freedom (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 31.

  8. See Thomas Nagel, "Concealment and Exposure," Philosophy and Public Affairs vol. 27, no. 1 (1998).

  9. See Schoeman, op. cit.

  10. Robert K. Fullinwider, "On Moralism," Journal of Applied Philosophy vol. 22, no. 2, 2005, p. 106; see also C. A. J. Coady, "The Moral Reality in Realism," Journal of Applied Philosophy 22, no. 2, 2005, p. 125; and Julia Driver, "Moralism," Journal of Applied Philosophy 22, no. 2, 2005, pp. 137–138.

  11. See Driver, op. cit., p. 137.

  12. See C. A. J. Coady, op. cit., p. 129.

  13. See Caroline J. Simon, "Judgmentalism," Faith and Philosophy vol. 6, 1989, p. 277.

  14. Ibid., pp. 275–276.

  15. Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 107.

  16. See Jeanette Bicknell, "Self-Righteousness as a Moral Problem," Journal of Value Inquiry vol. 44, no. 4, 2010, p. 483.

  17. See Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 110.

  18. Simon, op. cit., p. 277.

  19. See Piers Benn, "What Is Wrong with Hypocrisy?," International Journal of Moral and Social Studies vol. 8, no. 3, 1993, p. 229.

  20. See Christine McKinnon, "Hypocrisy, with a Note on Integrity," American Philosophical Quarterly, 1991.

  21. Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 113.

  22. See Jason Kawall, "On Complacency," American Philosophical Quarterly vol. 43, no. 4, 2006.

  23. Simon, op. cit., p. 281.

  24. See ibid., 284.

  25. See Andrew Jason Cohen, "What Toleration Is," Ethics vol. 115, no. 1, 2004, p. 92.

  26. See Peter P. Nicholson, "Toleration as a Moral Ideal," in Aspects of Toleration, ed. John Horton and Susan Mendus (London: 1985), p. 160; see also Angela M. Smith, "The Trouble with Tolerance," in Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon, ed. R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman (New York: Oxford, 2011), p. 182.

  27. See Smith, op. cit.

  28. See Jeanine Grenberg, Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and Virtue (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

  29. See Lucy Allais, "Forgiveness and Mercy," South African Journal of Philosophy vol. 27, no. 1 (2008).

  30. See John Tasioulas, "Mercy," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 103, 2003, p. 102.

  31. Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 110; see also Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, trans. M. J. Gregor (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 386.

  32. See Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 109. See also Joseph Butler, "Upon the Government of the Tongue," in Human Nature and Other Sermons, ed. David Price (London: Cassell and Company, 1887).

  33. See Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 109; see also Thomas E. Hill Jr., "Kant's Anti-Moralistic Strain," Theoria vol. 44, no. 3 (1978).

  34. Fullinwider, op. cit., p. 110.

  35. Simon, op. cit., pp. 278–279.

  36. Ibid., p. 282.

  37. This article was written with the generous support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. I would like to thank Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his comments and help in revision, and, as well, Otfried Höffe, Michael LeBuffe, Colleen Murphy, Robert R. Shandley, David Wright, and an audience at the University of Tübingen for valuable discussion.

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Radzik, L. On the Virtue of Minding Our Own Business. J Value Inquiry 46, 173–182 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-012-9317-1

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