It really doesn’t - if someone is addicted to, say, heroin and publicly state it is bad, they wish it wasn’t widely available, that there was more done to stop it, that if you do it you’re going to become a “bad person” doing bad things to finance this.
Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie?
Well, no - it’s usually a heartfelt plea from a place of painfully hard-won experience trying to help someone else lest they too fall victim.
No different that the teenage “why can’t I smoke, both of you {mom,dad} smoke!” setup that is so common it’s a sit-com trope.
There are different kinds or degrees of hypocrisy, no? Your examples are great examples for showing why hypocrisy isn't automatically bad.
Politics on the other hand is filled with hypocrisy that is far less acceptable, like pretending to care about women while taking away their rights, or pretending to care about the children while opposing any form of gun control or accountability for police.
> Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie?
It's not hypocritical - the junkie considers also his own addiction and habits as bad. It only becomes hypocrisy if he makes an exception for himself, using thin excuses.
To take the example to its limit: "You shouldn't double-park" "But you double-parked!" "Yes, and I shouldn't have, I'm a worse person for doing so, don't follow my example" - that's not hypocrisy. But "Yes but I was in a hurry and parking properly would have been really awkward" - now it is hypocrisy. Especially if they don't allow those excuses when others use them.
Huh? It's hypocrisy unless they pay the same fine for double parking that they want you to pay.
Otherwise it's just "pulling up the ladder" after they've climbed it. (Which is a standard tactic for people who "regret" having an abortion but don't put themselves in jail or even adopt a child).
I’m not sure what qualifies as “short-lived” in your world, but I do know a man who befriended a bear for about a year before his passing.
A friend’s father living on a large estate in North Florida befriended a young black bear who would routinely eat out of his hand and relax on his screened in porch with him. He was lightly hit once on the hand requiring a few stitches, but it was an otherwise successful bond.
Appears it is possible for the average joe in the right neck of the woods.
Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie?
Well, no - it’s usually a heartfelt plea from a place of painfully hard-won experience trying to help someone else lest they too fall victim.
No different that the teenage “why can’t I smoke, both of you {mom,dad} smoke!” setup that is so common it’s a sit-com trope.