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by blululu 1320 days ago
Logically no, but there are good reasons to distrust and despise hypocrites.
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But when the proverbial kettle calls the pot black, what no one seems to admit is, the kettle is not wrong.

Statements are, in the most fundamental sense, either write or wrong. Whether they’re insensitive, irrelevant or hypocritical are entirely orthogonal concepts. People tend to focus on the latter when listening to people speak, and often disregard the for former.