So what phrase would you use then, or do you actually deny that people speak and act in order to be perceived as "good"?
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people do virtue signal. but there’s a difference between acknowledging it happens and running around rampantly accusing random people of it indiscriminately
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like, there’s ways of engaging with the world that aren’t accusing people you don’t like of made up crimes
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Well said.
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Thank you, this perfectly boils down what makes me uncomfortable about this turn of phrase.
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“I am attempting to shame you for being compassionate.”
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Or perhaps, "Compassion is so foreign to me that I csn't believe anyone genuinely feels it." Either way? Not a good look.
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It's how straight white men express their confusion at the concept of giving a shit.
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Of course! By misusing real technical jargon (sociopath) to paint those you disagree with as terrifying monsters, you also devalue/corrupt their language - double whammy! No need to engage the ideas ever again. Plus; added bonus: you get to virtue-signal about virtue-signalling.
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we are literally talking about a bunch of people who won't get why you would want to make other people lives better. or why would you try to use a language that is nice.
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Because many people use “making other’s lives better” as an excuse to be dicks
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Right, so call them dicks. The issue isn’t that wanting to make people’s lives better is in itself a moral failing. Besides, most of the time I see it used in 2018, it is being used to describe someone caring about anything that person using it doesn’t
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Rather live in a society where people do the right thing, even if it's for the wrong reasons, than a society where people are constantly doing wrong things for any reason whatever. The first is a college campus, the second Nazi Germany (or the Trump White House.)
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Hold up, you're comparing college campuses to Hitler's Germany?
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Well technically they were contrasting
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Yeah I had to reread that. I think I get what they were going for now... it was just kind of eyebrow raising at first glance
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Perfect. In my youth, those same sociopaths used the derogatory term "do-gooders". It amounts to the same thing: "I hate people who act with perceived compassion for I have none."
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Compassion? All these bandwagons usually seem to be focused on shitting on people, and not helping anyone?
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"The last great temptation is to do the right deed for the wrong reason." TS Eliot Beckett
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I mis-quoted from my head. Correction: "The last great temptation is the treason, to do the right deed for the wrong reason." TS Eliot Sorry about that.
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Almost… "The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." (Murder In The Cathedral)
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Thank you.
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