It's not virtue signalling if you actually agree with the virtue. It's just expression.
expression carries risk with it. others might not agree with you, or might not approve of your form of expression. signaling is intended (though people do make mistakes) to be without risk. it's an attempt to join yourself with the collective group mind.
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I don't know about that. My Twitter feed seems to be reflexively 'anti-pc'. To a fault.
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then you're not virtue signaling. you're just expressing yourself.
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Wasn't that my original point?
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no. you linked the distinction to whether or not you believe in the virtue. I'm saying your state of agreement with the virtue is not relevant.
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I think we are having two different conversations. One is what exactly is virtue signalling. The other is the fact that we live in society and our expression has consequences that we should be sensitive to. I don't think we really disagree.
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I think we do disagree because inauthentic beliefs, so-called "preference falsification", is incredibly common and closely related to virtue signaling behavior. if all expressions of belief were authentic we would agree. that is not the world we live in.
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I agree that many expressions of belief are not authentic. But many are (or at least as authentic they can be Buddhist emptiness lol)
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