I think there’s a crossed wire here. I read Dagon as claiming that hypocrisy is prohibited but rarely enforced, rather than blackmail is prohibited but rarely enforced. I take it from “crime” that you understand the latter.
In my interpretation the statement would be that hypocrisy is frowned upon by society but the norm of non-hypocrisy is not enforced via blackmail.
Clarified—the hypocrisy is that blackmail is prohibited but not enforced against. We claim that it’s bad, but allow it most of the time. I could argue that hypocrisy itself falls into this category (we complain about it, but don’t actually punish it) as well, but I didn’t intend to.
I think there’s a crossed wire here. I read Dagon as claiming that hypocrisy is prohibited but rarely enforced, rather than blackmail is prohibited but rarely enforced. I take it from “crime” that you understand the latter.
In my interpretation the statement would be that hypocrisy is frowned upon by society but the norm of non-hypocrisy is not enforced via blackmail.
Clarified—the hypocrisy is that blackmail is prohibited but not enforced against. We claim that it’s bad, but allow it most of the time. I could argue that hypocrisy itself falls into this category (we complain about it, but don’t actually punish it) as well, but I didn’t intend to.