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Badger posts on the phenomenon of finding out people's secret attitudes and wishing you hadn't. It reminded me of this guy who was a "team-building" consultant at a large company I once worked for. He went around from department to department leading these so-called team-building exercises and getting people to open up to one another, but what really happened is that people found out that their co-workers were racist or that they didn't like someone else's religion or had other objectionable attitudes. Every single department the guy went to, people worked together worse when he was done with them. It took months before management took complaints seriously and got rid of him.