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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
By taking ANY moral stance that involves degrees (I will give more to charity because I feel the poor deserve a hand up; I will volunteer more because the community needs more people to pitch in) makes the person automatically a hypocrite. If you want give $1,000 to the United Way... why not $2,000? Or are you a hypocrite and don't REALLY believe that the poor need a helping hand? We all draw a line. And while Steve may be a hypocrite, I'd rather be him than Joe.
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No, I'm not a hypocrite because I'm not using your argument. You're the hypocrite because you are. It's pretty simple, and further, because I'm not a hypocrite, I'm objectively more moral than you. Annnnnnnndddddd I eat meat.
Any morality that includes hypocrisy as a consequence is poorly thought out and ultimately self-falsifying. My personal morality is that only conscious or potentially conscious beings have rights. It's wrong to kick a dog not because you are violating its rights, but because causing pain for your own pleasure or convenience is aberrant behaviour that increases the likelihood that you will do the same or similar to a conscious being that does have rights. Eating animals violates no rights and does not lead to the violation of rights in its indulgence, so therefore cannot be immoral.