{"id":3734,"date":"2016-12-05T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2016-12-05T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:55:37","slug":"hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3734\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Tim Worstall’s regular commenters “MyBurningEars” recently had this<\/a> to say on the subject of hypocrisy:<\/p>\n

I reckon hypocrisy is overrated as a modern \u201csin\u201d \u2013 people of all stripes seem to round on hypocrites as if they\u2019ve done something uniquely terrible<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree with this. \u00a0I have long thought that adult life requires being\u00a0hypocritical at times and if you’re a parent hypocrisy is a way of life. \u00a0I often tease my friends when they admonish their offspring for displaying characteristics that they themselves are practically defined by. \u00a0I have noticed that most mothers’ worst nightmare is having a daughter who is just like them.<\/p>\n

Dads don’t have it any easier. \u00a0They are required to tell their sons and daughters not to drink, smoke, do drugs, or shag around – which they do with extreme sheepishness if I happen to be in the room and I knew them at university. \u00a0Being hypocritical in this manner doesn’t make them a bad parent – quite the opposite, in fact.<\/p>\n

For my part, I often encourage people to do things which I myself don’t do and vice versa. \u00a0Some decisions and actions might make sense considering my own set of circumstances, but ought not to be done by others whose life may be different. \u00a0Drinking with Russians, for instance.<\/p>\n

I suppose provided people engage in hypocrisy for practical reasons rather than for moral posturing or from a desire to simply tell other people what to do, then it’s okay. \u00a0For me, there are far worse sins that hypocrisy. \u00a0Confusing it with inconsistency<\/a> is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Tim Worstall’s regular commenters “MyBurningEars” recently had this to say on the subject of hypocrisy: I reckon hypocrisy is overrated as a modern \u201csin\u201d \u2013 people of all stripes seem to round on hypocrites as if they\u2019ve done … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}