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Originally Posted by Christian Nelson  I guess in my mind, I typically like to see what a person claims to believe, and I expect them to adhere to it.
TO me that is the bigger ill, the fact that most tend to say they believe in something, or someone, then when you ask about specific parts of that same something or someone, and you find they don't actually believe it at all, or follow it at all, it seems to me inconsistant at best. |
As personally distasteful as I find hypocrites, their inability or unwillingness to "practice what they preach" has no particular relevance to the "rightness" or "wrongness" of what they've advocated. I suppose one could argue that if the supporter of X as a value is unwilling or unable to themselves adhere to X, then that undercuts somewhat the chances of X really being a value.
But in the end, everything that hypocrisy really tells me is about the messenger, and not about the message.