[some guy who either uses the online alias 'Knob' or Jerry just felt like a calling a 'Knob']: But Mysterious Mare Do Well can't be good because the Mane Six were being hypocritical!
[Jerry Peet]: They were still right, regardless of any perceived hypocrisy. Proving somebody is a hypocrite is not the same as proving them wrong.
If they're actually right on an issue, logically their 'reward' for being right should be to be punished in an appropriate manner. For a hypocrite to be right about something, means to be wrong for doing it.
Or if it's okay for them to be doing what they're doing, then they're wrong about the activity in question being wrong. It's lose-lose.
And hypocrites tend to deny their own guilt, rationalize how it's 'different' and 'doesn't count' when they do it. They tend to excuse themselves from the rules they seek to push on others. The very act of doing one thing, while saying another, sends a mixed message, do we listen to what they say? Well then we have to punish them for doing the thing they said was wrong. Or do we accept their behavior? Then we have to disagree or at least ignore what they said.
In regards to the Mysterious Mare Do Well, the fact that the main characters were hypocrites undermines the lessons, because it presents 1 behaviour, showboating, in 2 different lights which contradict each other. And it could send the message that it is okay to engage in bad behaviour, if it's to punish someone else's bad behaviour.
Also, when hypocrites gain enough power to eliminate the real, or perceived, wrong doing in others, they become the last, but most entrenched, bastion of the very thing they fought against. So even if they're 'right' about something being wrong, they'll be the biggest source of it if they aren't fought against, and held to the same standards as everyone else.
They also demonstrate that they don't have either the conviction or self awareness to follow their own words, so they deserve no respect. And they're usually projectors, projecting their own wrongdoing (perceived, subjective, or real) onto others.
Also, often their underlying motives have little to do with the behaviour being decried, and more about negative emotions, like jealousy or resentment, a need to control or at least push around others, under the guise of fighting something.
TL;DR:
If a hypocrite is right about a certain behaviour being wrong, then they're guilty.
A hypocrite says, "all rapists should be shot immediately!"
The crowd agrees.
*BANG
This website has become an inconsistent piece of shit. Some of the options for adding things like the line right above this sentence only pop up at certain times, hell, this originally was going to be a reblog and thus a direct response to Jerry, but threw out even the format the original post had, which presented its text in this pretty decent looking format:
And then there’s things like deleting a line also takes out the image or possible above the line deleted, and big peeve so far, is the block quote option not targeting just the text you highlight, but all of what you have typed. Just shit is a pain to try and format the way you want, or even figure out the rhyme or reason to when and where certain formatting options are or aren’t available, and why. Fuck it. It wasn’t worth replying to Jerry if I could have formatted it prettier, since he wasn’t likely to reply anyway, but now it’s all shit, and this blog isn’t getting much traffic or any subs yet, so it’s been a waste.
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