This threat of punishment forces a human to mask their self in order to, for instance, to accommodate others at expense of being honest about yourself. The latter option would hurt me as it is too expensive to search for another job and I have obligation to care for my disabled parents and a new born child. There is a parallel here to the story of Ulysses (Odysseus) who was travelling back home but got shipwrecked on an island where a one-eyed giant lived: a cyclops.