I certainly disagree with this. Again, I just don’t buy the “benign hypocrisy” idea. (It is, in any case, socially corrosive even if “true” in any given case. I put “true” in scare quotes, of course, because whether to categorize the behavior as “benign hypocrisy” is precisely at issue; what’s actually true is some empirical facts of the matter.)
[how did you get nested quotations to work? I can’t seem to manage that...]
Certainly it’s true that it “isn’t plausible to claim that every divergence between words and actions is due to duplicitous malintent”. But who is claiming otherwise? I am saying that “hypocrisy” refers to—and guards against—a broader spectrum of behaviors than that.
So I think we agree that there are benign divergences of between words and actions.
I don’t know what your definition of hypocrisy is to evaluate whether we disagree beyond that.
[how did you get nested quotations to work? I can’t seem to manage that...]
GreaterWrong uses a raw Markdown editor, where you can do nested quotations in the usual Markdown way. (If you don’t know or recall the format of the quotation markup, you can use the quotation button on the GUIEdit toolbar: select the first level of the quote, click the button; select the quoted text plus the next level, click the button; etc.)
As for the rest of your comment—see my reply in the other thread. I don’t think there is any difference in our definitions of hypocrisy.
[how did you get nested quotations to work? I can’t seem to manage that...]
I think this disagreement probably was an illusion generated by our differing definitions of hypocrisy:
So I think we agree that there are benign divergences of between words and actions.
I don’t know what your definition of hypocrisy is to evaluate whether we disagree beyond that.
GreaterWrong uses a raw Markdown editor, where you can do nested quotations in the usual Markdown way. (If you don’t know or recall the format of the quotation markup, you can use the quotation button on the GUIEdit toolbar: select the first level of the quote, click the button; select the quoted text plus the next level, click the button; etc.)
As for the rest of your comment—see my reply in the other thread. I don’t think there is any difference in our definitions of hypocrisy.