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Originally Posted by YYC in LAX
If you show sympathy towards a loved one who chose to drink and drive, then you're a hypocrite.
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Sorry, that doesn't logically follow. You're not showing sympathy because of what they've done, but who they are. That's not hypocrisy, that's realizing that just because you see somebody in a movie, you don't actually have a relationship with them built upon anything real, so it's perfectly fine to judge them entirely on their actions and not on your non-existent relationship.
What you are saying is akin to "Well, if you want to sleep with your wife, and you don't want to sleep with my wife, you must be a hypocrite!" Not acting or feeling the exact same way towards people that have different relationships to you is not hypocrisy.