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¿Question #5509?
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Jatoha: cognitive dissonance reduction
jegan22280: Greed
pakruse: Fear. Also seagulls.
Woelf: Inability to admit fault.
pwilz: The need to be right all the time.
Spirit of 70: Selfishness and fear.
marlinus64: Image. Image is everything to some people.
savantt: Ignorance.
whac3: inability or unwillingness to think out the logical consequences of statements or actions
ricardofo: sin
kathleenryan: Conflict of thought
chockle: Id
petegrey: sex
Cavedog_pdx: Pride
42ndSSD: Sex. But I'm a Freudian.
Sceadeau: To be able to do what they want free from rules.
DHEK: A need to portray a "holier than thou" image and at the same time enjoy the benefits of whatever they were condemning in the first place. In other words, a need to have their cake and eat it too.
ZiggyZambo: fear of ridicule
aleo09: don't know, tell me
zaphod6*7: Primes: 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 57 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 87 89 93 97
blindspot: forgetfullness
SharinganKakashi: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HYPOCRISY; but sometimes there is!
scriptorum: Existence. Life is too complicated, the demands we place on ourselves are too challenging, hypocrisy is inevitable.
Tina and Steve: ignorance
diehard4life: fear of being known
GrimJester: Stayin' alive. It's natural and normal.
mcross: Pride
SisyphusX: A desire to be seen as moralistic.
puffinge: quest for power
cobbz20: Selfishness
zoopiglet: Good question. I'd say because people are insecure and will turn on their beliefs to be accepted.
Gibbo: arrogance
BeeCeeJay: Ignorance.
Chris Page: Staying sane.
POvidiusNaso: #1 greed, #2 needing to look cool before one's ever shifting target audience.
brainrob: Laziness
dietevil: Personal gain
LemonyFresh: greed
bigbadsteve: boredom
SteveK2: insecurity - the need to appear different from how you really are
Rukasu: Depends
hacksword: Religion
beakermyers: Fear
Kazin: Pushing other people down.
skrutsch: pride
SiddGames: Wow, a serious question? Perhaps selfishness?
Mike A: Laziness. Or sloth. Whatever.
pellitieri: Peer pressure
djlg: Ego (or lack thereof).
locusshifter: Jealousy
Loquutus: Genetics. It's natural to be a hypocrite
ZombyDawg: It's a clash between self interest and puplic relations.
CortexBomb: An inability to look at oneself objectively
arkibet: being cranky
skelebone: Vanity.
heli: greed & self-interest
chaddyboy_2000: I don't know.
jttm: Ignorance
CDRodeffer: Fear
ssmooth: Well, obviously, they think they can convince other people that they (the hypocrites) are better than they really are. What motivates that may be low self-esteem at first, but once they see they can make it work, the reason they keep working it, I think, is sheer greed.
Lord_Prussian: depends on the hypocrisy, but often it's wanting to control other people but retain your own personal freedoms