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Originally Posted by The Green One
The fact still remains that they themselves are hiding from a plain and simple fact. Their actions are going to make them mass murders. They may have good intentions and reasons for it but they are lying to themselves and others by not embracing the fact that they are telling this world and everyone in it to die so that their's can live. They can be sorry about it all they want but spending time and energy to "protect" their victims from their own attacks is just escapism to protect their own feelings. You have to admit that their behavior is contradictory.
They even failed to make more than a token effort at the other heroes, clearly much easier prey and would be enough to utterly doom this world according to Fitoria.
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You missed my first part about it being an automatic thing. And while I agree that their actions are contradictory, it takes more than that to make a person a "hypocrite". To be a hypocrite they'd have to demonstrate some sort of contradiction between their stated values and their actions or something like that. Or maybe condemn others for actions that they're taking. What they're doing isn't hypocrisy, it's internal conflict: they hate the idea of killing innocent people for the sake of their own world, and when they see people in trouble they help them without thinking about it, but they have to do what they're doing. Again, would they be hypocrites if they fought the waves and struggled to protect the people of their world while refusing to go and kill the Heroes of the other world? They'd still be saving people that they'd condemned by their own choices. That's the thing about the trolley conundrum: there is no good answer and no answer makes you a "hypocrite".