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[deckardcanine]

In your opinion, who's worse: (A) someone who does something bad, tries to hide it, and publicly rails against the practice; or (B) someone who does something bad and acts like there's no problem with the practice?

Hypocrisy seems to be one of the most universally hated offenses. Not just these days, either -- depending on the sin in question, Dante would probably assign person A the worse fate. Nevertheless, I choose B. At least A means to limit the overall damage, possibly even bringing about more good than bad.

But maybe this is a moot point. It's best to be neither A nor B.

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[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

I'm not fond of liars, whether against a practice or against themselves. I think it's marginally worse to lie about oneself, therefore A is worse. But there's no real gain in arguing about the relative merits of two cow pies.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

there's no real gain in arguing about the relative merits of two cow pies.

Do you vote in elections?

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I'd go with B. being worse as well.

A. reflects badly on A., but enough B.'s will make the bad behavior tolerated in society.