Do not confuse appeasement with tactfulness or generosity. Appeasement is not
consideration for the feelings of others, it is consideration for and
compliance with the unjust, irrational and evil feelings of others. It is a
policy of exempting the emotions of others from moral judgment, and of
willingness to sacrifice innocent, virtuous victims to the evil malice of such
emotions.
Tactfulness is consideration extended only to rational feelings. A tactful man
does not stress his success or happiness in the presence of those who have
suffered failure, loss or unhappiness; not because he suspects them of envy,
but because he realizes that the contrast can revive and sharpen their pain. He
does not stress his virtues in anyone’s presence: he takes for granted that
they are recognized.