Reflective Tuesday: Hypocrisy

I was thinking the other day about hypocrisy. I am not trying to defend it at all, even though my realization may seem so.

Everyone who believes that good is always better than evil is hypocritical, because no one chooses good over evil every time. For example, every good parent (if "good parent" means that the parent wants to teach his/her children to choose good over evil, even in areas where the parent struggles to choose good over evil) is hypocritical to a certain extent. Yet it is the parent's responsibility to teach his/her children to do what is good. It is also the parent's responsibility to try to choose good over evil in one's life, so as to not teach hypocritically, but the failure to do so does not supersede the responsibility to teach one's children to do what is good. In other words, it is sometimes better to teach hypocritically than not to teach at all. Thoughts?