Blues Man so when I say I am aware of the standard and choose to not meet the standard because I find eating meat pleasurable and I am selfish - which means I lack consideration for animals - and I am chiefly concerned with my own pleasure, you think that is me rationalizing?
Yup.
Because you say these things and it's merely lip service or you are trying to god me into a contradiction.
Like I said you say you are weak and selfish and you are accepting those as excuses for your own behavior because you believe those things cannot be changed. So what are the reasons you choose to be weak and selfish?
Not sure how admitting I do wrong things will curry favor with God, but it's nice to know you think I am strong and selfless.
I don't choose to be weak and selfish. I choose pleasure.
I never said anything about gods.
And of course you are choosing to be weak and selfish because you don't care that being weak and selfish makes you live a life that is not in agreement with the values you say are so importatnt to you
Again... I am choosing pleasure because I am selfish and weak.
Again what is your reason to choose weakness because it is a choice. You are choosing to live in a manner that contradicts your own beliefs so you are choosing to be a hypocrite.
I don't choose weakness. I am weak. I choose pleasure. What part of I am choosing pleasure because I am selfish and weak don't you understand?
I would only be a hypocrite if I rationalized I wasn't doing wrong which is what YOU do. When people don't meet the standard and admit they didn't meet the standard, they aren't hypocrites, they just failed to meet the standard. But in no way does their failure to meet the standard negate the standard.
You choose to be weak. You choose to be selfish. You can change these things but you don't want to.
Again... I am choosing pleasure because I am weak and selfish. I think it must be your judgmental nature that is clouding your objectivity with bias which is preventing you from seeing this reality. That and probably your competitive nature which prevents you from admitting you are wrong.
And yes, for the record I don't want to change what I am doing because I like it and because I am selfish and too weak to do what I know I should do. But what I am
not doing is rationalizing that what I am doing is right like you do. Nor am I compartmentalizing what I am doing because I fully acknowledge and admit to what I am doing and don't try to justify it as good and right like you do.