Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Should you shoot the innocents because everyone else is doing it?

  No. You’re either aligned with your values or a hypocrite.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree. And I think that not in all of such situations you would be misaligned with your values.

    For example you may argue for making cars illegal, while you yourself own a car. You are not being a hypocrite, you are hoping that if cars were illegal, society would become more bike-friendly which is your ultimate goal, enabling you to stop needing a car.

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your feelings don’t change the world.

      If you use a car. You are okay using cars.

      Whatever you say to yourself to justify it is meaningless.

      It is normalized hypocrisy.

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      • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You are still missing the point, judging by the “to justify it”, since I never said anything is trying to justify anything. I just recognize the difference between “bad” and “hypocritical”. You can do a bad thing and not be a hypocrite, you can do a good thing and be a hypocrite.

        If you use a car. You are okay using cars.

        Correct. Which doesn’t conflict with my point at all. The person in that example is okay using cars. Where they are legal. And wants to make them legal in less places.

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