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I am a little confused by what you mean. Here are two definitions that I looked up. [0] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/hypocrisy https://www.lexico.com/e
by tareqak 6y ago
I am a little confused by what you mean. Here are two definitions that I looked up.
[0] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/hypocrisy https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/hypocrisy (Lexico powered by Oxford)
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy
If you mean to say there are no people that consider themselves to be hypocrites, then I would have to disagree: there are plenty of people who try, fail, and continue to keep trying to not be hypocritical. However, if you mean to say that hypocrisy is something that we almost always hear about when someone applies it to another, then I understand what you are trying to say.
I think I also understand what you mean by choosing to look at things using the lens / identifying a person’s action as a contradiction as opposed to hypocritical in that the former is an observation and the latter is an observation and a judgment/conclusion that may or may not have the full context/complexity taken into account.
- dang 6y agoI mean that there are contradictions in all of us between our beliefs/concepts/judgments on the one hand, and the reality of how we live/behave/act, and treat others, on the other hand. In that sense we are all hypocrites—but the word 'hypocrite' is mainly used to condemn such contradictions in others. You're right that I shouldn't have said "only ever"—other usages exist—but they're secondary. Another way of making this point about self-contradiction is to say that anger at others for being hypocritical is itself hypocritical.