Chapter Five. Immoral Morality.

[Ade]

The most pathetic kind of hypocrite, to my eyes, is the one that starts beleiving in the lies and pretense or that is a hypocrite to himself.
He cannot avoid failure, because of this, and being constantly surprised and dismayed by existence.

You wish you could be surprised by something, you crusty old bastard

[Joker]

I do believe this thread is wrapped.

[Joker]

@Satyr

@Joker

[b]For sake of arguement let us look to our pal Webster:

[size=150]Hypocrite[/size]

1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
— hypocrite adjective

Notice the underlined.

To be duplicitous can be advantageous and a strategy.

The most pathetic kind of hypocrite, to my eyes, is the one that starts beleiving in the lies and pretense or that is a hypocrite to himself.
He cannot avoid failure, because of this, and being constantly surprised and dismayed by existence.

Indeed.

The idealist makes a ideal hell out of their own struggles.