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For one thing, I think keeping it a secret can put you in some precarious positions; say you don't know whether a person knows you're a MAP, and they invite you to anti-MAP vigilante group - you can go along pretending you're not a MAP or you can refuse and raise their suspicion. Either way there's risk. An open MAP doesn't have to put themselves in risky positions in order to conceal their own identity.

I know you're merely raising a hypothetical, but it just sounds like social anxiety, to be honest.

"Sorry, I don't want to get involved in that kind of thing" would be a perfectly normal and reasonable response to being asked to join a vigilante group.