That's not hypocrisy
That's trying to explain what you know to be the right thing to do, despite - or because - of your own inability to do it yourself.

My daughter's not even a year old and already I'm worrying about her finding out about my decades of debauchery. Any kind of moral instruction coming from me, in the light of such information, is going to come across as hypocrisy of the highest order.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 10:12, Reply)