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It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy! The US constitution frequently prevents the US government (and US State governments) from

It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy! The US constitution frequently prevents the US government (and US State governments) from enacting laws or enforcing previously enacted laws. This can be good or bad depending on your point of view, but it's a simple fact that in the US we have constitutional rights that are actually pretty potent. Do the police in China have to read people their rights? Guantanomo is a travesty, but it's a travesty precisely because the US Constitution is difficult for the government to ignore. A more interesting example is many former British colonies, such as Australia, and Britain itself manage to have quite free societies despite having almost no constitutional protections. In China I'd say you don't even seem to have the basic rights people in the English system and its descendants enjoy thanks to the Magna Carta (Habeas Corpus, for example, or the right to a fair trial. Wasn't there just a very high profile case in China where the accused was very vocal one day and then suddenly had nothing to say the next?)

cygwin98 13y ago
It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy! I don't get this. Did you mean there are 50% hypocrites and 90% hypocrites? And the 50% hypocrites can always laugh it out at the 90% hypocrites, because he/she may think he/she has a moral high ground due to less hypocrisy. Heck, that's mouthful.
- ugexe 13y ago
  I don't get this. Are you saying someone who is a hypocrite 1% of the time is equal to someone who is a hypocrite 99% of the time?
  - Gigablah 13y ago
    Yes, they are both hypocrites :) (Seriously though, degree and frequency are different things)
    - maaku 13y ago
      Maybe, but you and cygwin98 are seemingly the only ones confused/pedantic enough to care.
      - Gigablah 13y ago
        Hey now, there are different degrees of caring. I care 10% and cygwin98 cares 90%.
- mahyarm 13y ago
  It's a matter of degree. The difference between a thief who steals bread, a thief who steals cars and a thief who steals %10 of GDP through political and financial trickery.
  - randallsquared 13y ago
    Kind of a bell curve, then? :/

cygwin98 13y ago

It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy! I don't get this. Did you mean there are 50% hypocrites and 90% hypocrites? And the 50% hypocrites can always laugh it out at the 90% hypocrites, because he/she may think he/she has a moral high ground due to less hypocrisy. Heck, that's mouthful.

ugexe 13y ago
I don't get this. Are you saying someone who is a hypocrite 1% of the time is equal to someone who is a hypocrite 99% of the time?
- Gigablah 13y ago
  Yes, they are both hypocrites :) (Seriously though, degree and frequency are different things)
  - maaku 13y ago
    Maybe, but you and cygwin98 are seemingly the only ones confused/pedantic enough to care.
    - Gigablah 13y ago
      Hey now, there are different degrees of caring. I care 10% and cygwin98 cares 90%.
mahyarm 13y ago
It's a matter of degree. The difference between a thief who steals bread, a thief who steals cars and a thief who steals %10 of GDP through political and financial trickery.
- randallsquared 13y ago
  Kind of a bell curve, then? :/