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Does hypocrisy hide behind silence?

by unknown116 in Six Words Questions on Jan 17, 2013 | | T-shirt

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Hypocrites I've known were some of the most outspoken people I've come across. Like sleight-of-hand artists who produce an attention-getting flourish with one hand while surreptitiously whisking away the shiny object with the other, the hypocrite distracts you from his (perhaps) perverse predilection with a booming basso profundo of bile aimed at the very act he's committing behind closed doors. Once light is shed, however, the roar seems to leave the lion.

unknown116 says,

Here's where my thought was Dean, what if some people stay silent because they know they could never follow by their words?

Dean6805 says,

If they're quiet, how are they then hypocrites? Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing the other. If you remain quiet, your behavior can't contradict your words. You would be, in fact, the furthest thing from a hypocrite.

unknown116 says,

Good point.

marymc says,

Some interpret silence as agreement.

unknown116 says,

That is very true Mary. But we can't be responsible for how other's interpret our actions. (Most of the time)