You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation. . . is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral. . . that it is a duty and a virtue.