Let's use the simple definition of hypocisy: acts at odds with one's stated rules/beliefs.
Because we wish to see ourselves as good and the other guy as bad we tend to draw the lines as closely as possible to our own actions. I. e. the line is riiiggghhht here so that I am right and you doing almost exactly the same with this one leeetle difference is wrong. Ok fine. But the problem is that words are always open to interpretation. Somebody who doesn't like me is going to go out of his way to spin the words so that I'm on the wrong side of my own line.
Fortunately I know the magic of words and the secret of magic. Mine enemy can gain no power over me with words alone.
Hipocrisy is also mathematically inevitable. Given our life experience we formulate rules(t0), tell people what they are and really try to live by them. But it's absolutely certain that the rules are incomplete (Church). And Lord Finagle will find a way to throw us into a situation where those rules are inadequate and the situation undecidable (hailing, Goedel), usually about the day after we've made a promise based upon them. So now we formulate rules(t1). But rules(t0) != rules(t1) so some wisass clown down the road a bit is going to say hey, you're doing this now but that contradicts rules(t0) which you SAID was what you believe! You can't say t1 NOW. You're a damned HYPOCRITE!
Guilty.
We sail ass-backwards through time seeing where we've been but with only a hand mirror of wisdom to peek behind us into the future.
That's what makes it an adventure. Enjoy it!
-- TWZ
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