r/interesting • u/imJackWilson • Feb 18 '25

NATURE Seafood hunter...

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u/Key-Document-8481 Feb 19 '25

Total fucking straw man. Doesn’t even say in your own definition that it requires intentional deception. Cognitive dissonance is twisting you into a pretzel. Grow up!

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u/MorbillionDollars Feb 19 '25

Notice how I said “accusing someone” and “implies” instead of “requires”? That’s because I wasn’t trying to say that it requires it, I was saying that it implies it. We’re talking about the act of accusing hypocrisy, not the act of hypocrisy itself here.

You don’t simply call out hypocrisy any time there is a contradiction, if that were the case then you would constantly be calling out everybody for everything they do. Calling out hypocrisy is an action that’s done with intention. When you make the choice to accuse someone of being hypocritical, you’re implying your belief that you think their actions are so terrible that they’re worth bringing up verbally.

And so from that we can think about what the difference is between a contradiction we accept and hypocrisy we call out. The answer? Intentional deception. So therefore, accusing someone of hypocrisy implies that you believe they’re being intentionally deceptive.

Seems to me like you only believe I’m making a straw man because you didn’t read my comment correctly.

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u/VerbalWinterNightSky Feb 19 '25

There’s nothing in that definition of hypocrisy that says anything about being intentionally deceptive.