Honest question - is it immoral to be impolite? Why or why not?
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Politeness is the gateway drug to real morality.
I worry that for some people it becomes not a gateway drug, but a substitute. E.g. one of the defining qualities of political correctness is caring a lot about the words people use for things. This usually seems to come at the expense of caring about things that really matter.
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Agreed. It's a lesser morality used as a substitute for something greater - like a mask of virtue.
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Acting on the virtue always beats virtue signaling, since the signaling is cheap
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