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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Excellent point—the biological concepts of “honest signal” and “cheating” are, uh, well adapted here
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