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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Disagree. Hypocrisy is not an action, it’s a mindset that inspire an action. Show me one human devoid of hypocrisy, ever, and i’ll show you a unicorn.
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I think I disagree with both of you - hypocrisy is neither action, nor behaviour (collection of actions), nor mindset...I think it is an outcome of the combination of the three
Hypocrisy requires:
1.a previously established mindset (typically expressed through action, including statement)
2. a new action that does not conform to the mindset expressed in #1
but those two points alone do not yet equal hypocrisy
3a. hypocrisy is avoided by an additional action that renounces the beliefs established in #1, or sufficiently and demonstrably alters the mindset held in #1 (I would suggest that some level of contrition/acknowledgment of error/mea culpa is necessary, and probably the element most often missing when hypocrites attempt to distinguish their way out of )
3b. hypocrisy is confirmed through inaction, or continuation of #1
#1 and 2 are so commonplace in any learning process that the word hypocrisy could be applied so ubiquitously that it would lose all meaning