is hypocrisy ok?

Question

i've heard it said that hypocrisy is average, that hypocrisy is an ok trait to have. but is that really true? is hypocrisy and everyday thing that is now found to be acceptable? or has the human race merely become accustomed to it?

lately i feel like all i am is hypocritical. how true can that really be, though, if hypocrisy is average?

Answer 1

We're human and we have shortcomings. Hypocrisy is not OK, but we're not perfect.

Answer 2

It's not ok, although it's not necessarily a fault. But it's not a quality either. Sometimes hypocrisy is not intentional and it can't be controlled. Sometimes we are forced by events, people or circumstances in our life to become hypocrites. With ourselves and with others.

Answer 3

Hypocrisy is the act of pretending or claiming to have beliefs, feelings, morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice. The word derives from the late Latin hypocrisis and Greek hypokrisis both meaning play-acting or pretense. The word is arguably derived from hypo- meaning under, + krinein meaning to decide/to dispute.
Truly believing in one's right to a behavior whilst denying others the same right does not fit under the definition of hypocrisy, but should rather be termed as holding a double standard, thus leading to the most common misuse of the word. Examples of behavior mistakenly attributed to hypocrisy include issuing or enforcing dictates one does not follow oneself and criticizing others for carrying out some action while carrying out the same action oneself. This erroneous application of the word leads some people to believe that most people, if not all, are hypocrites; they tend to criticize what they perceive to be bad behavior in others, yet will justify it when they are inclined to perform the same action. Rather, this form of behavior is closely related to the fundamental attribution error, a well-studied phenomenon of human psychology: individuals are more likely to explain their own actions by their environment, yet they attribute the actions of others to 'innate characteristics', thus leading towards judging others while justifying ones' own actions.

Hypocrisy is a deliberate pretense used to convey sentiments or ideas that are false (acting as if one likes something or someone or agrees with a belief or political position when in fact they do not).

Types of Hypocrits:
Honest External hypocrites: Their stated beliefs contradict their actions. However, their stated beliefs are consistent with their actual internal beliefs. Therefore they are also honest internal hypocrites. They have strong convictions but do not always follow through. Causes for this type of hypocrisy will be discussed later.

Dishonest External hypocrites: Their stated beliefs contradict their actions and their stated beliefs are not consistent with their actual beliefs. They often have weak convictions, and it is possible for them to be non-hypocritical on an internal level.

Honest internal hypocrites: Their internal beliefs contradict their actions. Their internal beliefs remain constant despite their contradicting actions. They are honest with themselves, and strive not to conform their beliefs around their own desires, actions, or imperfections.

Dishonest internal hypocrites: stated beliefs are consistent with actions but actual internal beliefs are not. They are often people pleasers with weak convictions.


How should one go about obtaining a belief system?
One should do their best to objectively perceive Reality for what it is.
One should do their best to objectively perceive Truth for what it is.
One should do their best to objectively perceive Morality for what it is.

Once you obtain a belief system in this manner, your perception of reality will be as close to actual reality as you can make it. If your beliefs are humanly impossible after this evaluation, then you will have to settle for being an honest hypocrite!

Now don't get me wrong, you should do everything humanly possible to keep the hypocrisy to a bare minimum. Conform your actions to your beliefs the best you can, but never conform you beliefs to justify your actions, unless you have objectively found flaws in your beliefs.

We often see that a person condemns in another the very thing he is guilty of himself. Is this hypocrsy? It may, or it may not. If he really feels none of the disgust and abhorrence he expresses this is quackery and impudence. But if he really expresses what he feels (and he easily may, for it is the abstract idea he contemplates in the case of another, and the immediate temptation to which he yields in his own, so that he probably is not even conscious of the identity or connexion between the two), then this is not hypocrisy, but want of strength and keeping in the moral sense. All morality consists in squaring our actions and sentiments to our ideas of what is fit and proper; and it is the incessant struggle and alternate triumph of the two principles, the ideal and the physical, that keeps up this "mighty coil and pudder" about vice and virtue, and is one great source of all the good and evil in the world. The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up. The ideal principle is the master-key that winds it up, and without which it would come to a stand: the sensual and selfish feelings are the dead weights that pull it down to the gross and grovelling. Till the intellectual faculty is destroyed (so that the mind sees nothing beyond itself, or the present moment), it is impossible to have all brutal depravity; till the material and physical are done away with (so that it shall contemplate everything from a purely spiritual and disinterested point of view), it is impossible to have all virtue.

Hypocrisy is a matter of perception, not purpose. We are all guilty. Because something as minute as waking up grouchy could make us see something in a less favorable way.

Answer 4

its not average. its wrong. it makes people mad ya know? then again everyone does it. just dont be super duper hypocrite or anything. otherwise dont worry about it

Answer 5

everyone is hypocritical at one time or another...usually more than that...i dont think it matters whether or not its average....if you dont like being hypocritical...than dont be

Answer 6

Hypocricy is like anything else. Fine if you just don't tell anyone.

Answer 7

IF YOU ARE THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD YOU DEPEND ON IT, RIGHT, DUBYA?

Answer 8

no, it can't be ok
its an ugly trait

Answer 9

No, even though it is rampant.