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the only sin that requires you to actually know better
means The practice of claiming moral standards or beliefs you don't actually live up to, condemning in others what you quietly do yourself.
from From Greek hypokrisis, meaning 'acting on a stage' or 'playing a part' — a hypokrites was literally an actor, one who answers and speaks in dialogue beneath a mask. The word traveled through Late Latin and Old French into English, where the theatrical sense faded and the moral sense hardened: the hypocrite became someone performing virtue they don't possess, still wearing a mask, just no longer on a stage.
- word origin
- From Greek for stage actor playing a part
- detection cost
- We spot it instantly in others, never ourselves
- moral upside
- Implies a standard exists worth pretending toward
- universal
- Nobody fully lives the rules they preach
- political fuel
- Powers more scandals than the original crimes
al gore carbon footprint — climate activist whose home uses 20 times more electricity than average american household
jeff bezos climate pledge — founded climate pledge while amazon produces 60 million tons of carbon annually, 2019-present