Monday, January 26, 2009

Hypocrisy Series - 1

Hypocrisy (or the state of being a hypocrite) is the act of preaching a certain belief, religion or way of life, but not, in fact, holding these same virtues oneself. For example, if a person were to tell one to stop smoking cigarettes yet they smoke themself, this is hypocrisy. - Wikipedia

'Do unto Others as you would have done unto Yourself' as Matter (and thus Humans) are the size of the Universe thus the Other is a Part of the Self. - spaceandmotion.com

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation - Hillel in response to the request from a prince to teach him the whole of torah while stands in one leg

The idea is to write a seeries on hypocrisy which I consider as the greatestest of all evils. Sorry I am wrong here. I actually understand that hypocrisy is the only evil in the world, the only form of ignorance that one needs to fight against. Why so? the other natural question that follows is whether other accepted evils like murder, stealing, raping etc are not evils as per my understanding. The answer is simple. some of them can be evil, all need not be.

Let me explain one case here. Take the case of murder. It could be that the person who committed it have done it with the understanding that the deceased deserves capital punishment and he would not mind getting such a punishment for the same crime. In such case, as per my understanding of evil, the person has only done the right thing though he might have to pay the price of such an action by a possible costly litigation. But then all human actions have costs and benefits and human beings can only be rational in deciding what is good and what is bad in any given situation given the potential costs and benefits.

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