[MD] Social Level- Catholic Social Teaching

Ian Glendinning ian.glendinning at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 07:41:50 PDT 2008


DMB
Why would I want hypocrisy to be ubiquitous ?
I don't. Never remotely suggested I did. Your question was a
rhetorical suggestion about me. I was asserting something about the
real world.

Do I feel comfortable in an ocean of hypocrisy ?
No, your question was a rhetorical suggestion about me. Life is not
about feeling comfortable, it's about dealing with reality, solving
life's problems.

Practising what one preaches ? Yes, has a nice snappy ring as a
definition of hypocrisy, a good defintion taken holistically, as a
generality, but real life is more complicated than that.
Preaching - what one says at different places and times - almost
always involves rhetoric.
Practise - actions and intentions at different places and times, and
over different timescales, are not always what they appear.

The integrity, harmony, honesty are dynamic patterns.
I have no doubt I have them.
You have no doubt you have them.
And, I don't doubt you have them.

Drivel, nonsense ? Feel free to disagree and even provide arguments,
but calling it nonsense doesn't seem to help anyone.
Ian



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