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Well, let's say I'm a doctor, I'm well convinced that smoking is quite harmful, but I find myself too addicted to manage to quit. Certainly, my nonetheless qui
by dllthomas 9y ago
Well, let's say I'm a doctor, I'm well convinced that smoking is quite harmful, but I find myself too addicted to manage to quit. Certainly, my nonetheless quitting is the best outcome. But telling people to quit despite not doing so myself is preferable to telling people not to quit, isn't it?
- ionised 9y agoThat is not a case of hypocrisy being the right thing, but rather the doctor doing the right thing in spite of the hypocrisy, not due to it.
- dllthomas 9y agoSure, I don't think you can find a case where hypocrisy is the right thing to do for the sake of hypocrisy. That's not really an interesting observation when clearly no one places a positive first-order moral value on hypocrisy.