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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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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I would argue that it’s still a problem if people do it unknowingly, although correcting it would obviously take a different approach.
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Yes, I'd say people are arbitrarily good at making themselves indistinguishable from someone who "really does believe it" (see also Dennett), so I would say it doesn't particularly matter if somebody doesn't believe something they're saying.
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That's unless you can get them to admit they don't believe it, or if you're interested in whether, or how, they might act upon this belief they don't really have
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