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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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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From an unfinished blog postpic.twitter.com/FHi8IllFQH
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Agree with everything till the last two paragraphs. There IS a huge difference. Consider eg this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of- …∞/ The signaler cares primarily about making noise, "raising awareness". True virtue, at least by some lights, cares whether the program ACTUALLY WORKS.
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Because if it doesn't, then stop wasting time on it and try something else. This is kinda the nub -- do you care about the result (fewer rapes) or about how you got there (everyone being told repeatedly that rape is bad, mkay?)
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This seems, also, to be part of the _Enlightenment Now_ hatred --- an anger at the idea of actually solving problems (and tracking the extent to which they are solved) as opposed to being very vocal in complaining about them.
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Woops, just remembered. David actually has an article on this issue:https://meaningness.com/metablog/virtue-court …
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I hadn’t thought of the relevance of that! Thank you!
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