THE HYPOCRISY ARGUMENT

I am always fascinated when people lob the accusation of "Hypocrisy!" in political disagreements. It's put forward with such confident self-righteousness, but it's always a losing argument. That's because "My political enemy used to say X, but now they say Y!" can so easily be flipped on its head. 

Every time.

(And the person making the hypocrisy argument simply doesn't see it. THAT is what is fascinating.)

Here's a great example posted by a friend on Facebook recently: 

The message is pretty straightforward: "Those anti-vaxers are now using the 'my body, my choice' argument that they always opposed when it came to abortion!" 

The hypocrites!

But look how easy it is to swing the hypocrisy allegation the opposite direction. My version offers the same issue with a different hypocrite:

See? Easy as pie.

Now who's the hypocrite? (See answer below.)

(Everybody. We're all hypocrites.)