“This is the great case against hypocrisy, that hypocrisy allows us to act contrary to our ideals, and at times our ideals could have prevented holocausts. I suppose on the other side of the ledger must go the various “social graces” where hypocrisy supposedly smooths social interactions and lets us save face. Is there a way to weigh these two sides against each other, or is there a way to distinguish them, so we could have the good hypocrisy without excessive risk of the bad slipping in too?”
I look at this a bit differently. Let’s say there are four of us (Robin, Eliezer, TGGP, and me, HA) that want to persist as subjective conscious entities. What actions that the 4 of us take will maximize our persistence odds? I think every ideal should be subordinated to that. It’s on this basis that I would criticize (or promote) hypocricies against ideals, and the occurance (or non-occurance) of holocausts.
“This is the great case against hypocrisy, that hypocrisy allows us to act contrary to our ideals, and at times our ideals could have prevented holocausts. I suppose on the other side of the ledger must go the various “social graces” where hypocrisy supposedly smooths social interactions and lets us save face. Is there a way to weigh these two sides against each other, or is there a way to distinguish them, so we could have the good hypocrisy without excessive risk of the bad slipping in too?”
I look at this a bit differently. Let’s say there are four of us (Robin, Eliezer, TGGP, and me, HA) that want to persist as subjective conscious entities. What actions that the 4 of us take will maximize our persistence odds? I think every ideal should be subordinated to that. It’s on this basis that I would criticize (or promote) hypocricies against ideals, and the occurance (or non-occurance) of holocausts.