(April 5, 2016 at 11:08 am)BlackBird Wrote: If I were to say that to someone, it would be because they are advocating that I should live by rules that they are ignoring. It's merely pointing out hypocrisy. It would be like someone trying to tell me I should be a vegan while we're out having burgers. It's not that I think I'd be better off a vegan. It's that you are sitting in front of me eating ground beef, so clearly it's not THAT important to you, so why do you think it should be for me?
What if a doctor told you specifically that you need to be a vegan for health reasons specific to you? Would that doctor eating meat or allowing other patients to eat meat mean that his advice to you is invalid? So couldn't a moral guide do the same? Of course there are overall health standards that couldn't hurt for any of us just like there are overall moral standards that couldn't hurt for all of us
