It's better to view hypocrisy, in many cases (though definitely not all!), as a failure of aspiration. We shoot for the moon, and sometimes fall in the mud puddle in front of us.

If you view life and technology as evolving toward increasing complexity and power as time goes on, then morally we have the opportunity to evolve as well. We can steady state for a while at our current moral development (which is probably more egalitarian than morality was just a few hundred years ago), or we can alter our morality as life and technology advances. Given enough time, technology may become indistinguishable from the old-school gods, so morally the question becomes, are we going to become gods with all-too-human morality, with god-like love, or with demon-like selfishness?

Biasing towards nihilism is picking the demonic route.