Questions: Imperfection or hypocrisy?

Which would you choose to accept, in yourself or in others: imperfection or hypocrisy?

If a person has good intentions but poor execution, that's imperfection. We are all imperfect at various times.

If a person has good beliefs but bad actions, that's hypocrisy. (The church treasurer who steals on the side.) Alternately, if a person has bad beliefs masked by good actions, that's hypocrisy. (The church lady who says, "I'm not saying this to offend you, but..." and then proceeds to intentionally offend you.)

I think we all need to accept imperfection as part of the human condition, and work within its limits (while never accepting them as written in stone). But do we need to accept hypocrisy? It is part of the fallen human condition (less than the given), so it need not be written in stone (contrary to those who indulge in it).

In the movie Contact, Tom Skerrit's character stabs Jodie Foster's in the back to win an unprecedented diplomatic appointment. After expressing his surprise that she even attended the event that her intergalactic discovery enabled, he said, "I wish we lived in a world where things didn't happen like that, but unfortunately, we don't." Her response: "Funny, I always thought the world was what we made it."