There’s a backlash against calling out virtue signaling, because to do so has become a political weapon. Morally prescriptive anti-virtue signaling is as self-righteous as the thing itself. That doesn’t stop virtue-signaling being a real and useful concept.https://twitter.com/dayclancy/status/1009506664062603266 …
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Virtue signaling is an adaptive trait. The point is, we all do it. It’s useful to understand so we can figure out how to be more effective. https://twitter.com/Jon_StewartMill/status/1009526652005769216 …
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I’m sure I must’ve expressed my opinion on some ethical issue to no effect, a trillion times by now. That’s hilarious. My opinion doesn’t matter much to me these days. I wish I’d cared less about my opinion and thought more about whether I was using my time effectively.
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Virtue-signaling is so strongly embedded in our behaviour, it’s easy to miss. Even though I understand it conceptually, and dislike it intensely, I still catch myself doing it. I drive myself nuts
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The main problem is that virtue signaling and actual virtue are difficult to distinguish, and it is definitely not worth a second party’s time to distinguish between the two on a case-by-case basis.
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Yes, absolutely. I wouldn’t know where to start with that.
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