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hombre_fatallast Thursday at 6:22 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's a natural response to feel bad about your behavior not aligning with your values.

So much so that we prefer to not think about it to prop up cognitive dissonance.

I think "wanting people to feel bad" is more an urge that people at least acknowledge the dissonance. Many people don't even get that far because it's so uncomfortable.