{"id":1749,"date":"2021-09-15T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"the-hypocrisy-argument-sidestep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"THE HYPOCRISY ARGUMENT SIDESTEP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The charge of &#8220;hypocrite!&#8221; in any debate is a type of ad hominem attack &#8211; that is, simply insulting an opponent personally instead of addressing the issue at hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beauty (or foolishness) of the hypocrisy charge is this: With it I can distract the gathered crowd with my cries of &#8220;hypocrite!&#8221; and never touch the question of whether my opponent was correct in the past &#8230; or is correct now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had to be one or the other, though, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charge of &#8220;hypocrite!&#8221; in any debate is a type of ad hominem attack &#8211; that is, simply insulting an opponent personally instead of addressing the issue at hand.\u00a0 The beauty (or foolishness) of the hypocrisy charge is this: With it I can distract the gathered crowd with my cries of &#8220;hypocrite!&#8221; and never touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}