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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (309094)	11/5/2006 1:02:36 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574539

"Really? Even I'm getting tired of arguing over "who is worse." That's kind of nihilistic, is it not?" True. But I take a special joy in skewering hypocrites. It is one thing if you aren't pretending you are better than the others, I can forgive the failings. We are just human with all of our flaws. But if you make a grand show of being morally superior, then you better deliver something... For me, that is one of the worst forms of lying. This is totally different from having high standards and failing to meet them. Having high standards and trying to meet them is how people improve themselves. But to have dogmatic and inflexible standards, willing to cast into Hell anyone who violates those standards until the moment they get caught violating them in which case we are supposed to forgive them for human weaknesses is a game I am not willing to play. I was raised with such hypocrites. If they impose such rules on others, then they apply to them in spades when they are caught. If they had a history of forgiving human weaknesses, then that is a different story. But usually that is never the case.