is hypocrisy a tool for survival?

[katia]

can we sustain, love, marriage, harmony...........without a little bit of hypocrisy?

[Elizabeth]

can we sustain, love, marriage, harmony...........without a little bit of hypocrisy?

Hypocrisy is one of the great gifts of mankind. We all espouse to be better than we actually are. We strive for our children to be better than us, by holding them to a higher standard than we ourselves can maintain, in hopes they will not make the same mistakes we did. This striving to be better is what has caused mankind to advance so rapidly. Indeed many times our children do not make the same mistakes we do. In this way their lives advance more quickly, making us hypocrites.

I don't see hypocrisy as a bad trait at all. I see it as necessary.

Love always,
Elizabeth

[Yvonne]

Justified hypocrisy is known as 'prudence'. Which also leads us to the conclusion that 'right' or 'wrong' is merely a question of perspective. It is by doing the 'necessary' that we can keep the society in one piece.

[Suzy]

The word actually is derived from the late Latin word hypocrisis and Greek hupokrisis which both mean play-acting or pretense.  By definition, every transsexual is a hypocrite.  We have to be in order to survive.  That's unfortunate, but a very necessary thing in today's society.  We have to play act.  I know of no one, in her religion, politics, or personal character, who is not, in a sense, a hypocrite in some area or another.  The biggest hypocrite I know is the one who denies ever being a hypocrite.

Kristi

[Jeannette]

can we sustain, love, marriage, harmony...........without a little bit of hypocrisy?

You've got to be careful these days.  Alot of wolves in sheep skin.  I'm too nice with my clients because I want to keep in business, that's a form of hypocrisy,  but it seems to me to be yet another of the nasty little tools that the ego utilizes to assert itself dominantly in consciousness...only if one is able to transcend ego-consciousness and complete oneself is there any hope of raising humanity above all of these nasty little tools.

[Fer]

I think the only reason all of those things are sustained at this point are because of all the people that are true and not at all hypocritical.  If you think about most problems and battles started in the past, most of them are because of hypocrites saying one thing but doing the opposite.  If it weren't for hypocrites in politics going against treaties with one another, a lot of crimes to society would never have happened.