Hypocrisy is an interesting concept. The most common understanding of a hypocrite is someone who does or says something against one’s own opinions or moral standards. But we also have this other concept of opinions which are bound to change all the time. So in what basis is one accused of being a hypocrite? If I have an opinion about something 5 minutes back but changed it now and did something that is based on my new opinion, am I a hypocrite? I am allowed to change my opinions but at the same time I’m not allowed to do something that doesn’t conform to my opinion. Am I missing something here?
Opinions are being blurted out all the time and if one is famous enough, every single opinion of that person exists in the form of screenshots in someone’s computer. So what are the rules of changing one’s opinion without being accused of being a hypocrite? Should everyone keep recording the fact that they have a different understanding about something than before? Isn’t growing up all about having different perspectives of everything around us? Which brings us to another path of thorns. Changing opinions.
We also look down on someone who keeps changing their opinions or someone who is easily convincible to change their opinion. People having opinions based one someone else’s opinions are frowned upon. Who decides the factors on which one is allowed to change their opinions? What constitutes to be considered as an original opinion? I watched a movie the other day which I felt was not really good initially. I then read something about the movie which gave me a different perspective about it. Am I allowed to like the movie now or should I live with the fact that I hate the movie for the rest of my life? More importantly, how does the fact that my change of opinion about something define what kind of a person I am? Which brings us to another disorder called opinions.
We always feel the need to have an opinion about everything all the time. Sometimes it is okay to not have an opinion about something than having a half-baked misinformed one. Which rises another question that why is it that we are not allowed to have opinions on something that we are not completely aware of? Are only experts of the matters allowed to have opinions on that subject? Can’t I have a misinformed one initially and then change mine once I learn more about it and create a different perspective for myself? Or is it the need to seem knowledgable that we keep wikipedia-ing everything new stuff we come across and pretend to have an informed opinion about it? When one half of the world feels ashamed to admit that they don’t have an opinion about something, the other half seem to be proud of themselves to flaunt that they don’t care about the same thing. Which side is better?
Which brings us to the next chapter of not caring. How good is it to not care? Why are some proud about it while some aren’t? I feel that everyone cares about something but just pretend to not care to be cool. And some pretend to care although they don’t realy care. Which rises the same question again. Which side is better?
Although finding a middle ground between the two extreme sides of everything does seem like the right option, how easy is it to find one in all cases?
Morality is another intesresting concept. I find it to be subjective but it is often defined as objective. What I find as morally correct may not be for another person. But we still keep walking up the moral high ground every single time we get a chance. An argument can never be constructive if any of them takes the morally right route. How can a subjective opinion used to prove someone else wrong?
Opinions. Changing opinions. Misinformed opinions. No opinions. Hypocrisy. Morality. Caring. Not caring. Coolness. All these problems rise due to one big problem. Judgemental people. If only there weren’t any in this world. If only.