Re: The End of Hypocrisy? (was: Why Does Self-Discovery Require a Journey?)

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 18:21:27 MDT

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    On 7/14/20030, Kevin Freels wrote:
    >One of the problems that I see is that people tend to place themselves into
    >groups to which they do not belong. For example, people join churches based
    >on social status rather than a set of congruous beliefs. ...

    Actually, I'd say that social status makes more sense than beliefs as a
    rational basis for association.

    >Hypocrisy is being reduced generation by generation. ... someone in
    >today's society that will stand up and say "I'm a perverted S&M freak" or
    >"I'm gay", or "I'm an atheist". Mixed race couples were very, very rare; ...

    Perhaps there is a trend, but this seems to me more a part of cycles than
    trends, and new hypocrisies replace the old ones.

    Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
    Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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