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i'm having a little too much time to spare these days. when that happens, my mind just starts wandering and having a little discussion on its own. so i was wondering...
whether some people are using the word "hypocrisy" too loosely.
according to dictionary.com (i love it), hypocrisy means "a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess."
according to my understanding, a hypocrite is someone who claims to be good and upright when he/she may not be so.
sometimes i hear people (and that probably includes myself from time to time) misinterpreting hypocrites as people having thoughts that may conflict/contradicts their actions.
strictly speaking, i don't think it's hypocrisy. for example, if i say that i dislike a person and have no common ground with that person, yet i talk to the person i dislike. by dictionary's definition, it's not hypocrisy. but under normal circumstances, i may be labelled to be a hypocrite. talking to a person though i criticised the person till he/she seemed to be worthless.
hmm. aiyo, i think teaching english for 5months is having an adverse effect on me. i'm nit-picking every single vocabulary word i can think of.
anyway, to come think of it, i think at some point of time in life, everyone has to be a hypocrite. whether you like it or not.
remember those times as a student where you have to stand up and greet the teacher whom you may not even give a hoot about?
that's why i'm usually amused when i see people writing that they hate liars, hypocrites, yada yada. i think it's like a slap on their own faces.
of course, sometimes, i do smack my own face, both metaphorically and literally (whenever i rammed my face into a wall in front of me)