Many people I encounter are hypocrites: pots calling kettles black. All right, so we all can be hypocritical at times because we all have different strengths and weaknesses. We must do our jobs correctly and fairly, so people have the right to complain about poor service, even if they do not have the job skills. However, many people complain in the wrong situations.
Hypocrites are usually liars and dictators who abuse their powers and complain just to show off and control others. They will often complain about others on harmless things, but contradict themselves when they make the same or a more serious mistake. Many authority figures are experts at that. Hypocrites just don’t want to admit their mistakes or bad actions.
I often encountered hypocrites at school. Many students and staff complain about others, then do the things they complain about. That is one thing I hate about group work in classes: people lie, “You’re not doing anything,” when they themselves are the ones who are not. Professors try to flunk students for not knowing everything, when they themselves don’t. In classes and dorms, people have yelled “shut up” to others when they themselves were the ones talking so loudly, shouting, and playing loud music.
In the dorms at my college, the staff documented every word and action of residents. However, when residents just write down things like friends’, classmates’, and colleagues’ phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays, the staff gets them in trouble for “hogging information,” “taking copious notes,” and “publishing private information.” Once my friends and I were joking about one another, and decided to put the funny jokes on paper so we could read and laugh over and over. We changed the names, but the head resident lied that we were writing stories about other residents.
Police officers usually break the rules they cite people for. They always attack, insult, and lie about their victims, but the victims can’t say anything about them until they get to court.
At The OneRing.Com, some members continuously held it against me for “taking their advice and messages in the wrong way” and “not paying attention to what they say,” though I apologized and explained what happened. However, when I made some mistakes, they took my apology in the wrong way, refused to listen, and even attacked me. The moderators get after members for violating TOS when they themselves did so, and even encouraged it. Even worse, they lied that I was trying to cause trouble and make the problems worse when they themselves were doing it.
Later, at other online communities, a member who was also an admin at one of them, complained about people not being able to tell apart fact and fiction in roleplaying (RP) when he was actually the one who couldn't. He even used RP to play mind games and stir up trouble in several ways.
In writing fiction, I have seen instructors and readers making picky, narrow-minded, and subjective complaints when reviewing or editing stories. Many were even rude, and attacked the authors themselves. However, when readers expressed their opinions and made some complaints and corrections on their or their friends' stories, they attacked the those readers for being picky and falsely accused them of acting like they know everything when they were the smart alecs themselves. This is not only hypocrisy, but also narrow-mindedness and bias.
My ex-roommate, the landlady, was the major reason I moved from one of my previous places. Her hypocrisy was one of the biggest source of pain. She complained about people getting emotional over books and movies when she herself was in tears over some movies. That hypocrite bought her favorite movies, and saw them more them once in theaters, but made comments when I did. When some areas of the house were a little messy, she would make picky comments as she supervised my sweeping and scrubbing. However, she herself often didn't clean, and when she did, she wasn't thorough. At times I temporarily left out things for later use, and she would put them into my closet without telling me, not caring if she knocked things over or had heavy objects on fragile ones. However, she often left things out for days, taking up space and causing inconvenience. She complained about my heavy footsteps when she herself had heavier footsteps that even shook the place. Most of her hypocritical behaviors were over things that had nothing to do with her.
I hate hypocrites! Why don’t they just shut up and mind their own business?