Opinion: Virtue signaling is good because virtue is good and expressing your concept of virtue in a public way can serve as a persuasive tactic to convince others to adopt it
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the reason i dont accept "virtue signaling" as a real thing is that theres no particular way to distinguish a false signal of virtue from simply being virtuous. when i see people attack "virtue signaling" it is roughly universally meaning "your values are different from mine"
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sure there is. if one claims adherence to, for example, the Christian virtue that one should sell all one's belongings and give them to the poor, the person espousing this from their Upper West Side apartment and the person who actually did it have way different tax returns
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Individual verification would be great, but
#onhere, these kinds of things are almost impossible to prove. And attempting to chase down every single claimant would be similar to trying to disprove every crank assertion by creationists and flat-earthers. This simply doesn't scale. -
which would mean that
#onhere all virtue signaling is cheap virtue signaling
that isn't entirely true because you do see people fighting over the amount of time and energy they spend volunteering or protesting or what-have-you, which is virtue signal authentication, but close -
Not all acts of virtue are material. Supporting the right of LGBT people to exist, is idealistic in nature, by acknowledging their issues/amplifying concerns. Also the idea that there is a price barrier to participate in virtue is pretty opposite to what virtue is supposed to be
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since there aren't any non-material things the attempt to be assigned merit for non-material things is obviously a scam and should be treated as such i'd argue that the idea that you can have virtues that don't cost you anything is opposite to what virtue is supposed to be
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If you must reduce everything to crude materialism, then everything costs you time and energy, which is an opportunity cost. This means that any act that you take onhere is by default of material value. Also, the issue of virtue being a function of sacrifice is highly debatable.
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oh no, crude materialism. we only like assigning attributes & agency to spooky unobservable entities, which is very refined if you're trumpeting a virtue, which you expect to be rewarded since people do reward it, that cost you nothing, you aren't virtuous, you're a rent-seeker
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Excellent point—the biological concepts of “honest signal” and “cheating” are, uh, well adapted here
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