Is acting differently with different people make you hypocrite?

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Is acting differently with different people make you hypocrite?

Through sense perception, we receive incredible amounts of different stimuli, and we as human beings, tend to group these stimuli so that we can learn to distinguish one thing from another. For example, we know an orange is an orange because of certain determined characteristics such as its orange skin colour, the fact that it comes from an orange tree, its texture, its taste and its shape. We also more generally group the oranges into a wider group called the citrics, and this into a wider one called the fruits, etc

        Opposed to specific objects, plants and animals, human beings cannot be that easily categorized, as human behavior does not only depend on survival-based, immediate responses, or a series of unchangeable characteristics that make a distinction between a certain type of person and another.

        The human brain’s prefrontal cortex is a component that no other animal has, and it is believed that complex cognitive behavior, personality and social control are located there.

        We are conscious of ourselves and our environment, and we have the ability to interpret our surroundings through language, sense perception, reason and emotion.

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        However, although these are tools to interpret our surroundings, they can also be obstacles in our endeavor to acquire a clearer vision of our surroundings as for example, emotion can drown reason, reason can lose its significance if it doesn’t consider emotion, our perception might deceive us, and language’s inaccuracies in describing the world might lead to deep misunderstandings.

        Also, there are many reality filters such as media, moral, education, society, religion and emotion.

        Even though human beings are so complex, and their behavior depends on so many things, people are often categorized and grouped… just like oranges.

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