gjm comments on Does utilitarianism "require" extreme self sacrifice? If not why do people commonly say it does? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Your comment reads to me like a perfect description of hypocrisy. Am I missing something?
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.