(November 17, 2015 at 4:08 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Here's an interesting puzzle. Is it morally wrong to be hypocritical?
In and of itself, I would say no. It's certainly unwise to be hypocritical, as it has the potential to cause the hypocrite to lose credibility and appear unworthy/undeserving of trust. It's against one's self interest.
The matter of precisely what one is being hypocritical about is a separate issue and subject to the question of morality on its own.
Btw, my automatic "instinctive" response was yes.
Don't know what philosophizing types would make of that, if anything at all.