About 25 years ago, I heard columnist William Raspberry speak at Wittenberg University about our need for more hypocrisy. His opening line shocked me so I began to pay close attention to his reasoning. He introduced me to a quotation from the French philosopher Francois de La Rochefoucauld, “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.” Then he said that we have come to justify behaviors that we know are wrong by pointing out that others do the same things and therefore finding them to be acceptable. Continue reading BRING BACK HYPOCRISY →