I hope you don't say you hate something and then do it Eric, cause you hate when people do it so if you did that it'd mean you're one of them :uhoh:

 

I hate it too.

the solution I came up with which isn't neccessarily the solution is so complicated that I might as well just say it and no one will get it and they'll just be more confused so I don't think it will ruin anything to say it.

 

this is what I said:

I hate:

when people say they hate something AND then they do it.

 

in this case determining if this is a hypocritical statement one must determine what the stater means by "do it"

if "do it" means "say they hate something" then this would be a hypocritical statement. But it wouldn't make sense that that is what the stater is stating and by rephrasing the question this is made clearer......

 

this would be assuming the statement is:

"I hate it when people say they hate something and then they say they hate something"

 

which is quite a redundant sentence. so unless the stater is quite redundant then surely they are not being a hypocrite. But I'm still not completely sure about this..... because "do it" could mean multiple things including "say they hate something" as well as "eating peas" etc. then the sentence would not be a redundant one, but determining whether or not the statement is hypocritical must mean determining if the stater hates when someone says they hate something and that's probably impossible to do by that statement, but I haven't figured everything out and I'm still not sure at all if that's the only way to figure it out.

 

 

 

First off, Rick...Eric's head exploded long long ago. It's only the bits and pieces of his long-ago exploded head speaking for him now. That is where the confusion comes from. The pieces have a tough time coming to civil conclusions.

 

 

NOW to the juice...

 

You're right about the fact that we don't know what "it" means. "it" could have been refering to the statement itself, or another undefined action that could have been numerous actions.

 

So what I don't get now...is what exactly do YOU think the "it" refers to? Then we can go from there.

 

*spreads reverance*

cousin IT by any chance :P

after reading the first post i completely understood what the sentence meant, but reading all the posts to follow has confuzzled me. my memory of my initial thought has prevailed and this is what i make of it.

 

say i come up to you and say 'hey, i hate it when someone says they hate something and then they do it"

 

take that statement at face value would mean the thing 'do it' is directly related to the 'something' so the action itself is irrelevent. like in this sentence, the 'do it' is the when someone says they hate something then do it so putting that back into the sentence we have:

 

'hey, i hate it when someone says they hate [when someone says they hate something then do it] and then they do it'

 

the stater is hypocritical only because they have used the same word 'hate' which has directly linked them to the statement. the only way the stater wouldn't be hypocritical is if they had said something like 'i find it annoying when people say they hate something and then they do it'

 

therefore stater is doing exactly what they hate so he/she is a hypocrite. so yeah there we have it + some confusion lol

i think we all did something we said we hate

it's just like something that must happen....

that's possibly true. i've done many things i've said i hate. i've also said that statement a few times too. funny enough the irony that i was being hypocritical at the time never came up :rolleyes: