1/ There's something that bugs me about the "virtue signaling" discourse, which goes like this GROUP A: "Ugh, those people are virtue signaling -- they're just saying that stuff to seem like good people" GROUP B: "What's wrong with wanting to show you're a good person??"
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is to believe it yourself, even if there are deep and weird and highly utilitarian ulterior motives to why you are believing the thing).
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That I have seen, there hasn't been any clear attempt on the internet to disambiguate these two understandings of v.s. Most people use the first one, by volume, but also, most argumentation is low quality, by volume.
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