attracting the meaningless label of "hypocrite."
boy, you won't quit, will you?
it's quite insidious, how you sneak in your 'values' within your comment.
just because Fran put a smiley after her comment, doesn't mean she was speaking in a flippant manner.
imo, it's you who are flippant, calling hypocrisy a 'meaningless label'.
because if that's how you really think, that's sad.
cue your reply that's not how you really think.
if you are so cynical as to believe conscience is a delusion, and politicians should lie like rugs, then why don't you just say so? it's certainly appears to be what you're inferring, between the lines... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I do NOT think politicians should lie, just like I don't think spouses should cheat, but I do think that you will find it difficult to come up with the names of very many statesmen or stateswomen at the international level who have been very successful and who haven't committed their share of dissimulation. Can you? (I can think of a few possible candidates off hand -- Dag Hammarskjöld and the Catholic Popes since John XXIII -- but their exception appears to prove the rule by their extra-ordinariness, doesn't it? And their success seems somewhat limited compared to other good statesmen who haven't been so pure.) Maybe some sins are more forgivable than others, so perhaps we can expand our criteria beyond obvious and useless cliches.
