2013-04-22, 05:40 AM
Alloy Wrote:So you hate having your streets, and your policemen, and your firemen, and buildings and society around you?
Because if you don't hate those, yes, it'd make you one. Or maybe not hypocrite, just spoiled in a way. You just hates the means, not the outcome. Means that you can't change. But what if you could change them if you hate them so much? If you could just not pay taxes, like many other people, and it wouldn't be ilegal? So that their lower income would make them change and had to rethink where to get money from?
Not playing Mapletory isn't ilegal. It's what he's doing right now, quitting and saying this, sure, but after feeding the fire for years.
You decide.
From Wikipedia:
Quote:Hypocrisy is the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have.[1] Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie.[1]
Hypocrisy is not simply failing to practice those virtues that one preaches. Samuel Johnson made this point when he wrote about the misuse of the charge of "hypocrisy" in Rambler No. 14:
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself.[2]
Thus, an alcoholic's advocating temperance, for example, would not be considered an act of hypocrisy as long as the alcoholic made no pretense of sobriety.
In the first place, Joe's example was sarcastic as you can do something and hate it without being a hypocrite so long as you do have other reasons to do it and you don't preach virtues you don't have. In other words, as Limgoon commented that there's a huge gap between the rich and poor and how Maple is created without thought without saying that no one should spend time and money on it, he can't be said to be a hypocrite since he's not actually advocating anything while doing the opposite. Additionally, you can't say that he's feeding the fire because you can't link him alone to the current state of Maple; there's a Xenon that already beat him to doing a Chaos Vellum solo.

