{"id":7398,"date":"2015-02-04T04:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/rand-paul-jeb-bush-and-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T04:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T04:04:50","slug":"rand-paul-jeb-bush-and-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/rand-paul-jeb-bush-and-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, and Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Apparently, Paul does not understand the concept of hypocrisy.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">After Jeb Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jeb-bush-is-a-hypocrite-on-marijuana-rand-paul-says\/\" target=\"_self\">admitted<\/a> to smoking marijuana during his prep school days, Rand Paul called him a&#0160; hypocrite on the ground that he now opposes what he once did.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But this accusation shows a failure on Paul&#39;s part to grasp the concept of hypocrisy.&#0160; An adequate definition must allow for moral change. One who <em>did not<\/em> attempt to live up to the ideals he <em>now<\/em> espouses ought not be called a hypocrite; the term &#39;hypocrite&#39; applies to one who <em>does not<\/em> attempt to live up to the ideals he <em>now<\/em> espouses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">See my category <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/hypocrisy\/\" target=\"_self\">Hypocrisy<\/a> for more on this philosophically juicy theme.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Paul does not understand the concept of hypocrisy.&#0160; After Jeb Bush admitted to smoking marijuana during his prep school days, Rand Paul called him a&#0160; hypocrite on the ground that he now opposes what he once did.&#0160; But this accusation shows a failure on Paul&#39;s part to grasp the concept of hypocrisy.&#0160; An adequate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/rand-paul-jeb-bush-and-hypocrisy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, and Hypocrisy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}