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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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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It actually means that because you cannot effectively discriminate between "true" virtue and "mere signalling", it makes more sense to accept it all as virtue... or reject all virtue out of hand. The latter is a far worse and more cynical outcome for promoting virtue.
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i guess it depends on whether you think an environment where preference falsification cascades have made cheap performativity essentially mandatory is hunky-dory or not
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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