I’m going to do this without naming any specific Doper or providing a particular link. I think the point will be clear and well-understood. I’m guessing it still belongs in the Pit.
Those who play the ‘hypocrite card’ here are wrong about 99% of the time in my estimation. And I include those who cleverly do so without actually using the h-word. We see right through you.
They’re wrong because they fail to understand the other party’s true values and circumstances. Often deliberately.
Complexity of thought and action is not hypocrisy. There are often perfectly reasonable reasons for speaking/acting one way in one circumstance, and a different way in a different circumstance. There are millions of variable stimuli which affect the way we behave and the ideas we articulate. That is the human condition.
If you’re playing the ‘hypocrite card’ against someone who drives a car to the Live Earth concert, for example, I’m here to accuse you of being utterly bereft of complex thought and imagination. If you’re playing the ‘hypocrite card’ against someone who wrote the Declaration of Independence, I don’t even know where to start with you.
In any case, I say the charge of hypocrisy almost always indicates that the accuser is either disingenuous or a simpleton.
The main issue I see is that hypocrisy is so poorly defined that we are all guilty of it, all the time…
You septics are to blame for the prius, though. Almost any diesel car would beat it for MPG, performance, and CO2 emissions. But then your clean air emissions laws came in!
A tank where you store sewage. My mom’s house had one when I was a kid. Every now and then, you have to have someone come and pump them out, not a fun job.
I believe I correctly applied the spirit of the word in my post to this thread. I resent being generalized as a septic, and will only consent to it if I may refer to the person using it as “little bit” to rhyme with nit, since I feel the attitude is lousy. :dubious:
I completely understand. Some people who are called hypocrites, aren’t.
So? This is one of the more pointless threads I’ve seen on these boards.
If you think someone used the term without justification, tell us who and where. Then we can tell you whether or not you’re full of shit. That’s how it works.
