bigDog
Elder Lister
Would you rather live with a hypocritical thief, or would you rather be in the same neighborhood with an honest thief, ie a thief that doesn't hide that he's a thief?
At least you know where you stand with an honest through-and-through thief, but with a hypocrite, like the police, you never know when or how they are going to debit you.
The hypocrite may (and will usually) steal from you and tell you is the thief, and steal from the thief and sleep with his wife and tell the thief it is you who went to revenge.
An honest thief? Honest to who?