2006-12-05 13:01:17 · 7 answers · asked by abu 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You can't make a person be anything he doesn't want to be. Hypocrites very seldom admit to themselves or others that they are hypocritical, so I doubt teaching or trying to teach him will work either. All you can do is worry about your own behavior.
2006-12-05 13:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by Rebecca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is something that everyone does... and therefore everyone learns on their own. When you get burned enough, you learn not to or learn to like the feeling of getting burned! Either way, at the end of the day, if you learn something... no harm no foul. We are all here on this planet to learn from one another in the process of interaction and bumping up against the sore thumbs in everyone else we learn inadvertently about our own process and condition.
If everyone were perfect... there would be no need or purpose for life.
How do you teach someone that goes around calling everyone else out, on their very human bullsh*it how to be a little less smug and convicting?
Now there's a good question!
Only reason I am saying this... is because in asking this question there is an assumption that you have observed this in someone else and you are in turn calling them a bad person for being a hypocrite... hypocrites are not bad people. They are often fearful people, frightened of reality, people pleasers, or just completely oblivious to their own present condition.
So you should be acting as someone concerned and yet you make the assumption here that they are bad... With that preconceved notion and assumption of their character due to one small flaw that most people have (like it or not) you judged them and are asking how to go about forcing them to conform or change to a condition you deem fit or proper...
Honestly... who in the heck do YOU think YOu are considering?
Isin't this just a bit hypocritical?
Now there... don't you feel stupid? If you don't and I have angered you for saying this... you have learned first hand how you don't DO anything to help someone become a better person... You allow them their mistakes and gently guide them without judgement or conviction. IF THEY WANT TO BE HELPED!
Otherwise... all you'll succeed in doing is getting them, just as pissed off as I just got you!
Taaa daaa!
There you go!
You're welcome!
(and I say all this completely aware of the fact that this may not be from personal experience at all... this could be a psych class assignment based on a fictional situation.) Either way I answered your question so..)
2006-12-05 21:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let the hypocrite fall from grace,
then they loose face.
2006-12-05 21:10:52 · answer #3 · answered by thresher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must first be perfect before you can teach others.
2006-12-05 21:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by tofu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people never change... good people will always be good and bad will always be bad. Even though good people may become better or worse, they will still be good at heart. Same with bad people.
2006-12-05 21:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by jojot001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it's possible, only God can change people
2006-12-05 21:03:13 · answer #6 · answered by altmetal4christ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
give example of hitler...
2006-12-05 21:03:04 · answer #7 · answered by ilshdw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋