Bricker explains that playing by the rules is not hypocrisy.
I’ve used this story before, but since it seems necessary again.
When I was young, we had the board game “Monopoly,” as did many of my friends. My friends almost universally played with a “house rule,” in which the money collected from fines, and sometimes even from house and property sales from the bank, went into the center of the board, and was claimed by landing on “free parking.”
That’s not how we played when my house was the locale. Our “house rule” was the actual Monopoly rulebook, which clearly provided that Free Parking was just a resting spot, and garnered the player no money or other benefits. I would argue, when playing at someone else’s house, that we should follow the actual rules of the game. Often I would be outvoted, and the game would use the money-in-the-middle/Free-parking rule.
Taking the money, if I then landed on Free Parking, is not hypocrisy.
Do you understand why, sylmar ?
Hypocrisy is being judgmental about the actions of others, while giving yourself a free pass. There’s nothing hypocritical about advocating laws that are against your economic interest. The applicable word for such behavior is “Commendable”.