Rant: Doc: Hypocripsy

We tend to ignore the statements of those that we see as hypocrites.
A smoker says”smoking is bad for you”. We ignore him.
But who knows better the ill effects of smoking than the smoker?
Al Gore says that we must reduce our carbon footprints, but he flies around in a jet.
We ignore him, without considering that because he is trapped in the American way of
large cars and jet planes, he might be the very one who knows that it is wrong.
And hidden from us is the fact that he spends his money buying carbon offsets.
It is the old story that if you can discredit the speaker, you can ignore his words.
We ignore them at our peril, since a hypocrite may be speaking the truth.

B :-) doc