Lately, I've been thinking about hypocrisy and inconsistency. Frankly, I think there are some shenanigans going on!
I'm going to try to flesh out a bit of what hypocrisy is and then build up some of the ways that I've seen hypocrisy in action and a few common pitfalls that we walk into.
By definition, it's the act of promoting or claiming to live by a certain set of rules (e.g. a moral code) but behaving in a way that does not follow those rules. There's a disconnect between what is spoken about and what is done.
There's almost always a very negative connotation and I'm not sure there's much room for positivity in the definition. It's a breach of trust and trust is one of the most important social tenets that we uphold.
Intent doesn't really matter that much. It's obviously much worse if the person is purposefully creating the disconnect because they'd be explicitly deceiving people, but I'd argue that we don't even need that much distrust to treat someone with apprehension.
