gjm comments on Does utilitarianism “require” extreme self sacrifice? If not why do people commonly say it does?

[gjm]

Nope. Real human beings are hypocrites, to some extent, pretty much all the time.

But holding a moral value and being hypocritical about it is different from not holding it at all, so I don’t think it’s correct to say that moral values held hypocritically are uninteresting or meaningless or anything like that.