I have no idea what that means (and I'm kind of afraid to ask), but reading it, the term, "rent-signaling" popped into my head. So, that happened.
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that's very apropos, actually it means that morality you're supposed to *strive* for, you strive for because performing it makes you The Right Kind of Person who gets The Good Things just as a reward for being The Right Kind of Person
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Hmm. Is it rent-seeking if you just prefer to do that thing, or is it no longer moral virtue if your morality is by default or by natural preference? Or is the good stuff then just lack of cognitive dissonance or feeling bad?
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for purposes of this trolling i'm using "moral virtue" to mean behavior that's held up as praiseworthy and rewarded, culturally, so if you're just doing it on your own and nobody else is rewarding you for it then it's not rent-seeking, just hedonic optimization, which is good
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I keep coming back to this, trying to disagree, and failing. Please tell me this is trolling and let me in on the joke. ...
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it's trolling for sure, but not the kind that uses fake ideas, i'm afraid
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no u
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huge if true :)
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