Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:35 pm
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deckardcanineIn 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.
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.