Name: Justin Lance T.

Silva

Course/Year/Block: BSN-3A

Subject: NCM 113

CULTURE, VALUES, BELIEFS

CULTURE/VALUES/BELIEFS MEASURES
Filipino Time Filipinos has had this habit of not arriving on time
or starting late when it comes to events.
There’s a saying that Early is on time, On time is
late, and late is unacceptable.
For Filipinos however, they go beyond
unacceptable.
In order to solve this problem, we must tell
people to arrive at a time one hour before the
actual start.
Crab Mentality Here are measures for Crab Mentality:
1. Admit it. First and foremost, admit that
you’re also guilty of crab mentality.
Remember that you cannot overcome
something that you don’t believe exists.
Don’t worry. We’re all guilty of jealousy,
insecurity and selfishness… at least
sometimes in our lives. Moreover, it’s not
only Filipinos who can have this
mentality. People around the world can
also be guilty of it. Embracing humility
and admitting our mistakes are noble
acts that can definitely make us humans
rather than crabs.
2. Open your mind and know other people
better. The more you know people, the
more you will understand and develop
compassion with them. If you’re insecure
or feeling bitter with some people
(especially with your fellow Filipinos),
perhaps it’s because you don’t know
their true story. If you hear someone
who’s becoming successful, and you feel
insecure about it, try to pause for a while.
Then wield some efforts to know that
person better.
3.  Understand that helping others is also
 helping yourself. Perhaps the best
antidote for crab mentality is unity. If you
will join forces and cooperate with your
comrades, you’ll be in a better position
for survival. Just like the colony of ants,
they all act as a team, fight as a team,
and survive as a team. But for the crabs
in a bucket, they all act selfishly,
competing with each other and pulling
down each other, leading to their
demise. Now you have to make a choice,
crab mentality or unity?
4. Be cheerful. Have some calmness,
positivity and joy in life. Don’t spend
most of your time panicking because
other Filipinos are getting better while
you’re not. Instead, be happy that your
countrymen are progressing. Celebrate
with their success. Get tips, advice and
inspirations from their success stories. Be
inspired to do the same or do better.
Cheer up! Dust off all your bitterness and
be happy with your life.
5. Realize that crab mentality is a
mentality. In other words, it’s a state of
mind. That’s why you have to conquer it
right in your head. Our minds can easily
be influenced or corrupted by jealousy,
bitterness, insecurity, hopelessness, and
other negative thoughts. Thus, you have
to be more mature, knowledgeable and
understanding when it comes to dealing
with people around you. Learn how to
trust them and trust yourself from doing
that. Remember that the more you
distrust and underestimate other people,
the more you pull them down. Trust
them, uplift them, and free yourself from
doubts!
6.  Be a leader. Leadership will teach you
how to be organized, selfless, humble
and responsible. Apparently, the crabs in
the bucket don’t have a leader. No one is
acting as a leader among them. That’s
why they are chaotic and unsuccessful.
To overcome this crab mentality, learn
how to lead, act as a leader, and start
championing the true leadership in you.
 7. vercome crab mentality for the love of
our country. This mentality or attitude
will not help our country move forward
and achieve lasting progress. Our
countrymen, whether they are leaders,
followers or servants, we have to support
them on their great endeavors. We have
to lend our hands to help every Filipino
succeed in their righteous goals. That’s
why we should stop crab mentality in our
country… and we have to stop it starting
from ourselves.
Pride A person can honor his country simply by buying
from local businesses, supporting local artists and
passing on Filipino values. There is no crime in
the manifestation of racial and cultural dignity; in
fact, Filipinos should embody authentic pride —
everyone should. There is no need to pend the
value of Filipino identity, until it comes with a a
foreign stamp — that is exactly how to got
colonized! There is nothing wrong with
celebrating a kababayan’s triumph, but there is
also no need to magnify every little form of
recognition and wear them around as proof of
racial superiority. It is not about denying cultural
strengths, but rather embracing them along with
the weaknesses and allowing them to speak for
themselves.
There are endless things to take pride from other
than Cardi B eating lumpia and Meghan Markle
learning to say, “salamat po.” Learn to genuinely
love your background and origin, not only when it
is convenient or self-serving. Embrace your
culture, neighbor and every bit of Filipino in you.
In the end, it will make you a content and
authentic Proud Pinoy.
Ningas Kugon 1. Give and accept more compliments and
encouragements – this is to avoid
hopelessness, rather gives strength and
enthusiasm to finish what has been
started.
2. Avoid starting a goal/project if you know
you know in yourself that you cannot
finish it.
3. Be aware of the consequences of ningas
cogon mentality and reflect on these.
4. Ask help from somebody else, that way
the work will be easier and there will be
 lesser chances of not finishing it.
5. Make it a point that finishing what you
started will reflect who you are and what
you have achieved.

Mañana Habit 1. Pause- Pause to allow yourself to

examine, brainstorm, and ask questions
2. Check your Distractions
3. After knowing your distractions on what
hinders you to take action, maybe you’ll
feel worse because you already
acknowledged that you have these
distractions and you are allowing these to
control your life but take note that it is
okay.
4. Recheck your Goals
5. Write the Things that you have been
Putting Off
6. Take Action
7. Make a daily to do list
Colonial Mentality Buying local products and using local services in a
greater degree. It does not mean you should
eliminate 100% foreign products and services,
but just that you should choose local whenever
possible.
Contemplating buying a new phone or tablet?
Cherry Mobile is very good. Or you want to buy a
Samsung and make Korea rich?
Buying clothes or footwear? Marikina shoes are
great. Or do you want to buy Italian shoes and
make Italy richer?
Going to the movies? Choose a Tagalog movie.
Who did they make the movie for if not you? Or
you want to make Hollywood even richer with
your tickets to another American movie?
Watching TV? If you choose Korean drama, you
are making Korea richer again.
Listening to music? Wanna make America richer
again? Choose an American song. Smiling while
enjoying it? Americans are getting richer now
while Filipino musicians lost a customer. I would
choose a new OPM singer to spend my time and
money on.
Buying a T shirt and you think it would be cool to
have one that says “USA” on it? Glorifying
America again? Who will be glorifying the
Philippines? Are Americans wearing T shirts in
their country that say “Philippines”?
 So, losing colonial mentality begins with spending
your time and money on local products and
services and respecting the local culture. And if
you respect it yourself then the world will respect
it, too.

“Bahala na” Attitude Held close to the heart, the bahala na

phenomenon becomes a coping mechanism in
the face of risky undertakings. From this point of
view, this attitude indicates a deterministic
mindset. When one is confronted with a task, a
person will tend to assess his/her limitations and
chance of success. Even in situations where
uncertainty is high and the risk of failure looms
large, s/he may still opt to go through with the
task and put in his/her best effort. That little
remaining chance for error is given the seal of
bahala na – a seeming acknowledgement to the
role of unforeseen forces that dominates our
lives. This sense of determination in the face of
uncertainty exemplifies and highlights one’s
courage to willingly face difficulty and possible
failure.
Body Shaming What to Say to Someone Who Is Body Shaming?
Instead of getting into an argument with
someone who body-shamed you, react with
kindness. For example, you can say, “Thank you
for your concern. For now, I’m trying to focus on
loving myself and being positive about my body.
I’d appreciate it if you don’t say things like this in
the future”. Don’t argue further and walk away
from the conversation so it won’t get worse.

What to Do When Someone Is Body-Shaming

You?
The best thing to do is to call out that person in a
polite manner. Never spark an argument or fight
back with body-shaming them too, as this could
cause you stress. You should promote positive
support, not comment mean things. If you call
the person out, you can feel better about yourself
and take control of the situation. Find your voice
and speak with peace.
Judgemental 1. Don’t take anything personally.
This is a difficult one for most people. We usually
assume that someone is doing something
because of us. But the truth is that highly
judgmental people criticize everyone and
everything – especially themselves. Sure, they
might think they know everything or act like they
are God’s gift to the world, but trust me – they
don’t really feel that way. They act this way all
the time, under all circumstances, with all people.
So remember this: It’s not YOU … it’s THEM.
2. Be compassionate.
Nasty, judgmental people are made, not born.
Think about what could have possibly happened
to this person in their life to make them this way.
A child doesn’t become judgmental unless that
behavior is modeled for them. So maybe their
parents judged everything too – including them.
You never know what kind of negative message
they received about themselves growing up. So
while it doesn’t make their behavior any more
tolerable, remembering this will at least help you
have a little bit of empathy for them.
3. Look at it as a life lesson.
I think life is all about learning. If we don’t keep
learning how to be a better person, then what’s
the point of it all? So if you view judgmental
people as just another life lesson, it will help.
View every interaction with them as a “test” that
you need to pass. Are you going to respond with
negativity? Or are you going to rise above your
instinct to attack them back and decide to be the
better person? You always have a choice. So work
on choosing positive responses.
4. Don’t sink to their level.
Like I just said, when someone criticizes us, our
first instinct is to become defensive and protect
ourselves. Or maybe you just attack back. But
doing this makes you no better than them. If you
don’t like their behavior, then don’t give them
the power to change who you are. Don’t let their
negativity turn you into a cranky, crabby person
who plays the judgmental game right along with
them. Choose to be the classy person and walk
away with your head held high.
5. Look beyond the obvious.
Most judgmental people are also critical of
themselves. That might be hard to believe, but
we have no way of knowing all the negative
thoughts that go through their heads about
themselves. For example, I knew a guy once who
was criticizing all the overweight people a beach.
He said they had no right to “flaunt” their flabby
bodies so everyone had to see them. But guess
what? He had severe body image issues himself.
So his words were just a reflection of how he
really felt about himself.
6. See them as if they were a child.
We don’t expect children to know everything.
That’s why we tolerate and accept bad behavior
from them more often than we do from adults.
We think that once a person grows up, they
should know better. They should have figured it
all out. But that’s not how it works. Many adults
don’t quite “get it” yet. So if you view them as a
child – someone who is still learning and growing
and doesn’t know any better – then it will be
easier to be more compassionate.
7. Reframe it.
Maybe the judgmental person is your boss. It’s
obviously difficult to have to work with someone
like that eight hours a day five days a week. But
maybe you should focus on the fact that you
even have a job. Or that other people you work
with are really awesome. The judgmental person
does not have to be the focus of your life unless
you allow it. Put their behavior into context and
try to look for the positives in the situation – or
even in them.
8. Have an attitude of gratitude.
Be thankful that YOU are not a bitter, judgmental
person like they are. Be grateful that perhaps
your parents didn’t criticize and tear you down
like their parents did to them. Be happy that
other people like you more than they like them.
You can always find something to be grateful for
in every situation – even if it is a difficult one.
Anything can be seen as a life lesson if you
choose to see it that way.
9. Focus your attention on other people who
love and support you.
If you can avoid or remove the judgmental
person from your life, then do it! Even if the
judgmental person is your own mother, that
doesn’t mean you have to talk to her every day.
You can put distance between yourself and them.
If the person is your boss, try to fly under the
radar as much as possible. Maybe the person will
forget about criticizing you and then go pick on
someone else.
 10. Don’t believe them.
Just because a person judges you don’t mean
that what they are saying is right! Just because
someone calls you stupid, doesn’t mean that it’s
true! Just because someone calls you fat, it
doesn’t mean other people think the same thing!
One thing I know for sure in life is this: there are
very few facts. Most of it is just someone’s
opinion. So don’t confuse facts with opinion.
Here is the takeaway: don’t play into their
negativity. Don’t take that on. Most judgmental
people take pride in tearing other people down in
attempt to feel better about themselves. But
don’t let them drag you down with them.
Prone to Fake news Fake news will always be scattered in our
country, and that's a fact. No one can stop it. So
in order to fight the spread of fake news, we
must rely and trust news from tv and updates
only from trusted sources such as radio, tv,
newspapers and official pages (social media). We
must not believe updates from those sources
who're not licensed or trusted.
Gullible TRUST NO ONE
One of the major characteristics of gullible
people is that they they tend to trust people
easily. it is not that it is bad to warm up to
people, trusting them easily but the world as itis
as taught us to be extremely careful in dealing
with fellow humans especially people we are
meeting for the first time.
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To avoid being gullible or naive, one must always
increase in knowledge. Always strive to improve
your knowledge base. You can not stay oblivipous
of what goes on in your surroundings or in the
world in general. It is quite dangerous.
ALWAYS ASK FOR CLARITY
Always ask questions. do not be too quick to
assume that someone or somethings is being
straight with you. if you do not understand why
something is, ask questions. Be certain, do not
make any decision in a hurry.
BE MORE SKEPTICAL
Be more curious about things or situations. It is
true that being a doubting Thomas isn’t such a
good trait but as much as you are the good girl in
any picture doubt facts until proven true. Nevr
believe everything you are told hook line and
 sinker, except the individual telling you thingd
has earned your trust. And yes, let people earn
your trust.
DO NOT JUMP INTO CONCLUSIONS
It is a very big error that a lot of people not only
gullible people make. Avoid jumping into
conclusions in any situation. Always double
check.
AVOID ANYTHING TO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Yes always watch out for things, people or
situations who appear too good to be true. No
human or situation is perfect. Only God is. So
beware of perfect people and too godd to be true
situations.

Homophobic Homophobia is never ok, and you should never

have to face any kind of discrimination
(discrimination means people treating you
differently or negatively because of something
about you). If you are upset by the way someone
is treating you, you can speak out about it. If it is
someone at school then you could tell a teacher,
or if someone is being dangerous or threatening
towards you then you could tell the police. If it is
someone in your personal life who’s the problem,
consider whether that is the sort of person you
want in your life.

If you have to have this person in your life, it

could be worth trying to have an open and
honest conversation about their homophobia if
you feel like they are the sort of person who is
open enough to have that discussion.

It’s important to remember that there’s loads of

help if you’re experiencing homophobia.
Chismoso/Chismosa Ask yourself if there's any point in the gossip.
Human beings are social creatures, and
communication is a vital part of society. So
whenever someone starts gossiping about a
person with you, ask yourself:
"Does it need to be said?" "Am I gaining
something from it?" "Is it true? Do I know the
other person's side of the story?"
If you find yourself saying "no" or "nothing" in
your head, you need to stop yourself from
becoming an accessory to such toxicity. Imparting
information is one thing, but if someone gossips
to stroke their ego, it isn't worth it for you in the
long run.
Either listen passively to the gossip, switch the
topic or make an excuse and walk away from that
situation — virtually and literally. Save yourself
from the negativity.
Give yourself a time limit.
If you're in a situation where you must discuss a
person with someone else, set a time limit. Check
the time on your phone or look at a clock on the
wall. Tell the story in 10 minutes, tops. Of course,
the person you're gossiping with would also have
an input.
Exchange tidbits once or twice and then change
the topic. Gossip is like a story. You can morph it
into whatever you want to. So be in control of
the conversation and the information shared.
Defend the person (or subject) if possible.
You must understand that the person who's
gossiping with you might not come from a place
of truth. You could, therefore, defend the gossip
with a detail you know about the person being
talked about. Remind the gossipmonger that
they're not aware of the complete picture.
There are two ways in which the conversation
will flow: First, they will stop the discussion
immediately. Or, they will tell you another gossip
on top of it, mostly a personal attack on the
person. If this happens, use phrases like:  "I don't
know." "Seriously?" "Is it?"
People who gossip love to be correct all the time.
Engage them with words but not emotionally.
You'll be off the hook when they feel they have
won despite your defense about the person.
Pick your words wisely during gossip.
When you're talking ill about a person (and
enjoying it), you could use incredibly vicious
words. Don't pass remarks unnecessarily on
someone's character, hygiene, or how they dress
and talk simply because you're gossiping about
the person.
Before you start such a conversation, rethink the
words you plan to use. Is it possible for you to
use a softer substitute for the word? Using lighter
words during the conversation can reduce the
intensity of the gossip or even cut it short.
Pause for a moment and think about the person.
Whenever there's an opportunity to gossip, I

Imposing Beliefs to other people
Hypocrisy
always think about the person. Why am I talking
about them? What do I not like about them?
If you find yourself talking about how, for
instance, your cousin is heavily reliant on her
family, emotionally stunted, and cowardly, stop
and try to identify the problem here. Is this how
you feel about the cousin? Do you feel jealous of
the attention given to her? Does her family want
to be helpful wholeheartedly? Whatever the
answers, accept the truth, and move on. If
someone's causing you to worry, it's best not to
fuel your thoughts about them at all!
Cut off negative people from your life.
If you find the gossipmonger constantly
challenging your world negatively, remove the
person from your life. Break the chain of toxicity.
Block them from social media, delete their phone
number, and cut all ties — no matter how brutal
that seems.
Suppose it's a family member or an office
colleague who gossips incessantly and you can't
break ties with them permanently. In that case,
you might have to set a time limit or always have
an excuse to leave the conversation.
The best way to stop gossiping is by removing
gossipmongers from your life, then there would
be no one to tempt or instigate you to spread
negativity about a person.
Observe your tendency to gossip.
If you were to spend a day with people who love
talking about others, you might begin to notice a
slightly compulsive quality in your desire to
gossip. When that happens, pretend the person
you want to gossip about is standing next to you.
Would you say anything offensive if they're in
front of you? In most cases, you wouldn’t. So why
gossip behind their backs?
Let them know that although you may respect
their right to their beliefs, you are not required to
have the same beliefs. Ask them to please
respect you for your beliefs. However, if they
continue to push their beliefs onto you, it is clear
they do not respect you. Any relationship without
respect is empty and unnecessary. These
individuals must be eliminated from your life.
1. Ignore everyone and act only based on your
own moral compass.
You are highly influenced by your surroundings,
and the way that you behave is affected almost
immediately by the environment you’re in and
the people you’re surrounded by.
Just ask the 24 college students that participated
in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Good, law-
abiding citizens with high moral standards were
quickly changed to entirely different people when
they were isolated from the world they knew and
placed into a fictitious prison environment where
they became either guards or prisoners.
The behavior that ensued was shocking and the
experiment had to be ended a week early due to
safety concerns.
If you want to be sure that you’re actions always
align with your principles, then you must ignore
the environment that surrounds you. This, of
course is impossible, so perhaps the best
alternative is to avoid environments that would
make you question your principles.
2. Avoid condemning others.
The fastest way to draw criticism is by criticizing.
It’s tempting to call others out, and it’ll probably
get you much attention, but is it the attention
you want? And is it worth the cost? You’ll more
likely end up with notoriety than fame.
In a world where almost any stone can be
overturned, try to remember that your hands
probably aren’t as clean as you think.
Hypocrisy, at some level, is a psychological
certainty—you can’t get through life without
encountering it, so try to remember that parable
about casting the first stone…
The best way to fight hypocrisy in others is to
fight it within yourself. Set a good example, and
let your integrity be your condemnation. To lead
a purposeful life, you must stand up for what is
right, but you must also do it in a way that
exemplifies yourself.
Condemning others is also a dangerous hypocrisy
trap when it turns out that you were wrong.
3. Identify context and how it changes the way
you think.
In 2010 U.S. Congressman Eric Cantor went on a
popular radio show to praise and defend the Tea
Party—a growing movement of people upset
with government spending. He called their
dissent patriotic and sympathized with their
dissatisfaction.
Then, next year when the Occupy Wall Street
protests began gaining momentum—a group
dissatisfied with the corporatization of
government and showing it by demonstrating
across the country just like the Tea Partiers—
Cantor ridiculed the demonstrators.
Congressman Cantor fell into the context trap,
seeing two nearly identical incidents as
completely different. Like you saw earlier, it’s a
deceptively easy trap to fall into if you aren’t
paying attention.
And the best way to combat it is also very difficult
—keep an open mind.
It’s so tempting to support something that makes
sense to you and condemn something else that’s
unfamiliar, but this way of thinking is almost
certain to land you in the context trap. Once you
fall into it, the “hypocrite” label isn’t far away.
4. Listen to your cognitive dissonance.
When you were answering those two questions
at the beginning of this article, did you feel a
slight discomfort? It could have been a mild
stomach tightening, or a feeling of stress in your
shoulders, or even a very light headache that’s
hardly noticeable?
If you had opposing answers, then you probably
did. This is cognitive dissonance, and it’s
something you experience every time you meet
an inconsistency in your life. With years of
practice, though, you’ve likely become very good
at ignoring it.
But you shouldn’t.
The human mind is very bad at accepting
incomplete or inconsistent stories and when
you’re faced with information that contradicts
what you think you know, your subconscious
goes right to work filling in the blanks or
explaining it away to make you feel comfortable.
The problem is that your conscious mind knows
that what you’re doing is lying to yourself, and it
fights for the truth. This battle inside your head is
the discomfort of cognitive dissonance that you
feel until your subconscious wins and you go back
to the normal old you.
To avoid hypocrisy, you have to acknowledge
cognitive dissonance and teach your conscious
mind to overcome your subconscious. You have
to train the part of you that thinks rationally to
start winning the fight against the part of you
that thinks irrationally.
This is incredibly difficult—your subconscious is
the result of thousands of years of development
to allow you to go through your day with minimal
discomfort.
Learning to listen to your cognitive dissonance
takes practice, but the more that you focus on it,
the closer to the truth you get.
5. Reserve judgment until you’ve actually
experienced something.
Is saying something and then doing something
different the same as doing something and then
saying something different? If you look at it
mathematically (if a+b=c, then b+a=c) then of
course it is. But the truth is, and it’s been proven
by many studies, that we don’t see these things
as the same at all.
When someone says something and then does
something different, we call them a hypocrite.
But when someone does something  first, and
then says something different, we’re far more
lenient.
The reason is, sometimes, words speak louder
than actions.
If someone tells us that abortion is immoral, then
we take them for their word. If then they go and
have one, we see a serious inconsistency that
can’t be reconciled and we no longer trust them.
But if that person were to have an abortion,
and then speak out saying that it’s immoral, we
see this differently. Since we don’t have any
earlier beliefs to judge them on, we’re more likely
to see their inconsistent message as a sign that
they tried something and then learned a lesson
from it. We’re more likely to lend them the
benefit of the doubt that they actually changed
and, therefore, are still worthy of trust.
If you want to minimize hypocrisy in your life, it’s
best to act first, and speak later.
6. Practice integrity.
The idea of practicing integrity seems
preposterous at first—how can you “practice”
being a moral person? You either are or aren’t
one, right? But on further inspection, isn’t it true
that basically everything we are is a result of
practice and the habits that we either do or don’t
create for ourselves?
If you can become a great basketball player by
running drills all day and playing pick up games at
the gym, doesn’t the same apply to integrity?
Why can’t you also become someone with
integrity by thinking more about the principles
that are important to you, and then finding ways
to practice upholding them?
In time, won’t you start to recognize the types of
situations that you should avoid and have plenty
of experience in avoiding them?
7. Never make promises.
Making promises is probably the biggest
hypocrisy trap. It’s certainly the favorite downfall
of politicians eager to encourage people to trust
them.
The truth about a promise is that nobody actually
has the power to keep one.
Unless you secretly control the universe, a
promise is nothing but a gamble that you’re
placing on yourself and betting to win. Making a
promise to anyone is basically telling a lie and
then trying to find a way to make it come true.
If you have integrity you don’t need to make
promises because the trust that comes with the
consistency that people see in you is enough.
If you do control the universe, though, please
send me an email. There are a few things I’d like
to change.
8. Avoid positions of power.
Would you believe it if I told you that the more
authority you have, the more likely you are to be
a hypocrite? Actually, you probably would since
the most memorable hypocrites you know are or
were in positions of power. And it’s true.
In a study at Northwestern University,
researchers learned that the more power a
person was given over others, the more likely
they were to abuse it and see no problem with
their actions.
What they found was that if you see yourself as a
legitimate holder of power, you tend to judge
others more harshly than you judge yourself
because you see yourself as deserving of the
power that you have and others don’t. You
become “better” than your subordinates.
Can you see the problem here?
Another interesting result of the study was that
illegitimate power doesn’t create the same effect.
If you don’t have power or you believe that the
power you hold is illegitimate, you tend to judge
yourself more harshly than you judge others.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and if you
want to avoid hypocrisy, then you’d be advised to
avoid it. If you do attain some power, though,
you’ll be better off remaining humble about it.
As a rule of history, leaders that lose their
humility tend to meet their demise under less
than desirable circumstances.
9. Don’t trust your friends.
If you can’t trust your friends, then who can you
trust? No one I suppose.
The problem with hypocrisy spreads beyond the
person and applies to groups, too. At least that’s
what researchers at Northeastern University
found when they tested people to learn how they
compared identical actions by different people
when one of those people were part of a group
they belonged to.
Unsurprisingly, you’re far more likely to accept
hypocrisy from your friends than you are from a
stranger or someone that doesn’t share a
common interest with you.
This is part of our group mentality—probably a
coping mechanism we’ve learned through
generations to get along with the people we’re
close to.
But is it right? I don’t think so. Absolute and
unquestionable trust in another is immoral. To
give away your ability to reason and think
rationally isn’t in your own or anyone’s best
interest.
The Last Word
Hypocrisy is a difficult subject. It’s awfully hard to
get through life without experiencing it in some
way, shape or form. Just by the nature of life, we
learn and grow as we have new experiences.
And you do a disservice to the world if you allow
the way that you think now to rule your life
forever, never taking the chance to try something
new.
The concepts above will help you navigate life
while minimizing hypocrisy, but perhaps the only
way to avoid it completely is to subscribe to a
system of beliefs that removes it from the
equation:
There are no universal truths, everything
changes, and your values should be subject to
constant scrutiny.