So, @Meaningness has been posting recently on the general theme that (to heavily abbreviate...) "virtue signalling" should not be condemned because it may not be separable from virtue itself. I even participated with a comment intended to say virtue signalling may be inevitable.
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I suspect what is most annoying is not the dishonesty, though, but the smugness and the appearance of confidence of moral superiority. I suspect that usually actually hides panic that one will be perceived as insufficiently moral and/or confident by one’s in-group.
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Even the question of dishonesty being bad, is something that we may or may not wish to signal as part of our carefully-crafted signalled positions. Signals all the way down, as I think someone else on your thread said. But I agree, smugness is very likely to antagonize.
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