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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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      Do I gather that the left has successfully tabooed the concept of virtue signaling while I wasn’t looking? Presumably because it was effective in puncturing pretensions. It’s not a right/left thing, though…

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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      Virtue signaling is universal, and the concept is an indispensable tool for understanding what people do and why. Rightists virtue-signal just as much as leftists. Most opposition to abortion was always obviously virtue-signaling, for example, and not genuine moral concern.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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      Subcultures such as religious sects and fringe political ideologies have their own virtue-signaling shibboleths and taboos, whose function is status-climbing within the subculture. I wrote about virtue-signaling dynamics in the 1960s-80s here:https://meaningness.com/political-left-right-rotated …

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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      Here I suggest that practically all talk about ethics and morality is actually virtue signaling—with special reference to religion in general, and Buddhism (my religion) in particular. h/t @primalpoly, whose book I stole much of this from!https://vividness.live/2015/10/05/buddhist-ethics-is-advertising/ …

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        2. joe griffin‏ @griffinhearts 4 Dec 2018
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          ISN'T BUDDHISM INCREDIBLY SEXIST I DONT THINK BUDDHA INCLUDED FEMALES AS SERIOUS PLAYERS DID HE?

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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          Correct on both counts.https://vividness.live/2015/09/26/buddhist-morality-is-medieval/#gender …

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        1. Andrija Čajić‏ @andrijacajic 4 Dec 2018
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          Sounds like we need to be careful not to become _too loving_

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        2. whelm‏ @babarganesh 4 Dec 2018
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          you wouldn’t want an environment where there was social pressure to be virtuous

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        3. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 4 Dec 2018
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          you wouldn't want an environment where there was social pressure to display the most superficial possible simulacra of virtue, without doing an actual @Effect_Altruism or preserving any actual civilizational stability & sustainability.

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        1. Scott W.‏ @ScottDollaBillz 4 Dec 2018
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          What virtue are you signaling by highlighting this and publishing an associated podcast? Are you trying to signal your lack of virtue-signaling by outlining virtue signalers?

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