{"id":2363,"date":"2022-10-08T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2022-10-09T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:40:21","slug":"apropos-hw-and-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/apropos-hw-and-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"If you hadn&#8217;t noticed &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/10\/herschel-walkers-hypocritical-abortion-stance-is-under-fire-again\">Here we go again<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberals loathe the political Right\u2019s hypocrisy and unfairness. Conservatives loathe the Left\u2019s immorality and delicacy. The groups\u2019 estimations of their own qualities, though, are less precise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question of \u201chypocrisy\u201d is particularly interesting. La Rochefoucauld noted that \u201chypocrisy is the respect vice pays to virtue.\u201d One can\u2019t be a hypocrite without recognizing that virtue \u2013 that morality \u2013 exists. This recognition in itself makes hypocrites superior (in their minds) even to decent, noble liberals who discount \u201cmorality\u201d as dogmatic and unrealistic. Think of fundamentalist Christians who think that belief in Jesus is the sole criterion to enter heaven; one\u2019s behaviour is beside the point. To the Right hypocrisy is a <em>good<\/em> thing, and <em>they welcome it<\/em>, though they don\u2019t typically say so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>&#8211; originally posted in basil.CA<\/em> <em>a few years back &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. &#8212; Liberals loathe the political Right\u2019s hypocrisy and unfairness. Conservatives loathe the Left\u2019s immorality and delicacy. The groups\u2019 estimations of their own qualities, though, are less precise. The question of \u201chypocrisy\u201d is particularly interesting. La Rochefoucauld &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/apropos-hw-and-georgia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,124],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-conflict","tag-past-blast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}