Hypocrites

Hypocrites are individuals who consciously or unconsciously have a double standard of behavior, who appear to be false and duplicitous in their ethical or moral conduct. They may be consciously living a lie, to gain personal advantage, such as prestige or power, or they may be sincerely self-deceived. They outwardly seem to be what in fact they are not.

Many hypocrites commit the logical fallacy of special pleading for their own actions or omissions. Often, either deliberately, knowing themselves to be guilty of actual ethical, religious and moral infractions, or in the mistaken belief that they are innocent of any wrongdoing and are therefore not actually being hypocritical, they accuse others of being hypocrites. In either case, whether innocent or guilty, persons charged with being hypocrites are offended. They may even sue their accusers for slander.

In religion, government, politics, journalism, education, business, sports, and health and human services, persons seen as trusted, leading, and influential that are exposed as hypocrites, who have violated standards of integrity and right conduct, are sources of public scandal.

Historically, many virtuous persons have been villainously libeled with the unjust and unfounded charge that they are hypocrites.

See also

• Hypocrisy
• Perjury
• Fraud
• Confidence game
• Polemic
• Rhetoric
• Liberal hypocrisy
• Atheist hypocrisy
• RINO
• Christian In Name Only
• Character assassination
• Defamation
• Impeachment at trial
• Injustice
• Joan of Arc
• Thomas More

External links

Famous hypocrites, Infamous hypocrites (thehypertexts.com)

10 Breathtaking Examples of Government Hypocrisy (listverse.com)

America's Journalistic Hypocrites, by Robert Parry (consortiumnews.com)

My Island View: Hypocrisy in the Profession of Education, by Tom Whitby (tomwhitby.com)

Cash-Cow Hypocrisy: Higher Education Institutions Get the Gravy, Student Athletes Get the Beans, By Goughan, Russell (questia.com)

Biggest Hypocrites of 2014, by Paul Buchheit/AlterNet (alternet.org)

American Commitment: The Biggest Hypocrites in America, By Phil Kerpen (americancommitment.org)

How ESPN hypocrites both cover and ignore biggest scandals, By Phil Mushnick (nypost.com)

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report For FY 2001 - April 2002 (justice.gov/dag)

Hypocrisy: Self-deception, or Akrasia (weakness of will)? (lesswrong.com)

Why are Christians so Hypocritical? (exploregod.com)

What About Hypocrites in the Church? (focusonthefamily.com)

100 Bible verses on Being Falsely Accused (openbible.info)

Gaudium et Spes The Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965) (vatican.va) the causes of modern distress: scandal, hypocrisy, disbelief and atheism