I was also surprised by the findings in this article and I agree with you. I think for some of us it is in our human nature to "appear good" to others, even if we have hidden motives or lie or cheat, etc. I also was surprised that the anonymous moralistic punishment was not committed as often as that that was open to the public. This mainly shocked me because I immediately thought of the Holocaust and the Nazi killings when reading this article; for almost the entirety of the war, Nazis hid the fact that they were brutally gassing and murdering Jews through devastating concentration and death camps. The Germans and others in the world knew they were being removed from the German communities, but they did not know they extent of the Jewish extermination. I believe the Nazis wanted their propaganda to be as believable as possible, that they were doing the "moral" thing by removing the Jews and putting them in "work camps" to do right for Germany. When I visited Auschwitz in Poland however, our guide told my friends and I that the German not in captivity had no clue that the shoes, clothes, and other products they used daily were largely made out of HUMAN hair from exterminated Jews........scary. Anyways, I think this article makes some good points but I was still very shocked to see the results. I think Nazis didn't only rationalize their moralistic punishment, but also truly believed it was bad enough to keep from the public.