> Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie? It's not hypocritical - the junkie considers also his own addic

> Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie? It's not hypocritical - the junkie considers also his own addiction and habits as bad. It only becomes hypocrisy if he makes an exception for himself, using thin excuses. To take the example to its limit: "You shouldn't double-park" "But you double-parked!" "Yes, and I shouldn't have, I'm a worse person for doing so, don't follow my example" - that's not hypocrisy. But "Yes but I was in a hurry and parking properly would have been really awkward" - now it is hypocrisy. Especially if they don't allow those excuses when others use them.