Y'know, there was a good piece in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age talking about the moral status of hypocrisy - pity I don't remember it. In the end, I think they concluded that hypocrisy could as easily be interpreted as a sign of a more advanced ethical system instead of a weakness of will.
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Which has no relevance, so yay!
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(I generally prefer Snow Crash to The Diamond Age, actually.)