gjm comments on Does utilitarianism "require" extreme self sacrifice? If not why do people commonly say it does? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 12 December 2014 05:44:42PM 2 points [-]

Nope. Real human beings are hypocrites, to some extent, pretty much all the time.

But holding a moral value and being hypocritical about it is different from not holding it at all, so I don't think it's correct to say that moral values held hypocritically are uninteresting or meaningless or anything like that.