What is hypocrisy?

Question

Let's say you cheat on your wife, but you vocally oppose adultery. You acknowledge that what you did is wrong, and you still say adultery is bad. Is that hypocrisy? Or is it only hypocritical if you say YOU can commit adultery, but others can't? In other words, is hypocrisy about contradicting yourself, or holding yourself to a double-standard? Or both? I'd like to hear what you think.

Answer 1

* In an act of hypocrisy the aim is to condemn another person or people, not to condemn an act. To preach against an act of which one is oneself guilty, does not in itself constitute hypocrisy, even if one takes efforts to conceal one's behaviour. It becomes hypocrisy when it involves verbal attacks or demands of punishment against perpetrators of the act which one practices oneself.

* Concealment or evasion is not necessary for hypocrisy; hypocrisy can involve the open practice of a behaviour for which one condemns others. If there is a salient difference between the critic and the criticised which makes the criticised person reproachable for the act, but the critic not, then it is not hypocrisy; e.g. a parent condemning their child for using a dangerous implement which the parent themselves uses is not a hypocrite. If the difference in status appealed to by the critic is bogus, then it is indeed hypocrisy. The term double standard is used, confusingly enough, for both cases, as a simple descriptive phrase in the case of the parents, and as a pejorative phrase for open hypocrisy in the second case.

Answer 2

NO, it is not hypocrisy if you acknowledge what you did is wrong, make amends to your spouse and never do it again. If and only if you do those things then you can without being a hypocrite denounce the act of adultery. If you denounce other adulterers and you yourself are in an adulterous relationship then that is hypocrisy.

Answer 3

I think hypocrisy is trying to play off like you hold a high moral standard to others, while, at the same time violating that standard. I think it encompasses both of the points you made.

Answer 4

Hypocrisy is when you say one thing and yet do another. It is especially heinous if a person makes a show out of their beliefs. Jesus talked of hypocrites making a big show of their prayers, doing them in public so that others would think them very pious, while not doing things like helping a man who had been robbed and left for dead.

Sometimes spiritual masters actually test their students for their willingness to "walk their talk." There was a Sufi master in India who one day said, "I think I will go worship at the Krishna temple down the road." All of his students, save one, left in disgust (if you don't know, Sufis are Islamic mystics and not Hindus). But one followed his teacher. When they got to the temple, the teacher asked, "Why are you here with me? The rest have gone!"

"Because, Teacher, you have told us that all roads lead to God, and that God shows Himself in many forms."

The teacher nodded, for he knew he had found his one true student.

Answer 5

To me, hypocrisy is where two priests at a catholic church, steal millions from the church. The police find out, arrest them, and the church has the nerve to ask the congergation to donate even more money! to make up for the money stolen. Of course, the people do.

Answer 6

That's why Bob Marley sold the song : Who the Cap fits...

This song explains all there is about Hipocrisy;

The most prominent parts of the lyrics about hipocrisy are;

Man to man is so unjust, children
You don't know who to trust

Your worst enemy could be your best friend
And your best friend your worst enemy

Some will eat and drink with you
Then behind them su-su 'pon you....

Some will hate you, pretend they love you now
Then behind they try to eliminate you

Hypocrites and parasites
Will come up and take a bite

And if your night should turn to day
A lot of people would run away!
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So the song speaks for itself, and if there''s anyone on Y!A who the cap fits, let them wear it...

Answer 7

Analyze the word. Criticism is one thing but being hyper-critical is quite another. Criticism gets us all in trouble. But if you make fun of somebody in the mud while you're waist deep, I'd say that's a hypocrit.

Answer 8

That is hypocrisy . Just like if you tell your kids not to smoke and you do. If you firmly believe that something is wrong and preach it to be that way how can you go and do it yourself??? Definatly hypocrisy!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

both.
Or say you like free speech and then try to silence anyone you don't agree with.