Do I gather that the left has successfully tabooed the concept of virtue signaling while I wasn’t looking? Presumably because it was effective in puncturing pretensions. It’s not a right/left thing, though…
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Virtue signaling is universal, and the concept is an indispensable tool for understanding what people do and why. Rightists virtue-signal just as much as leftists. Most opposition to abortion was always obviously virtue-signaling, for example, and not genuine moral concern.
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Subcultures such as religious sects and fringe political ideologies have their own virtue-signaling shibboleths and taboos, whose function is status-climbing within the subculture. I wrote about virtue-signaling dynamics in the 1960s-80s here:https://meaningness.com/political-left-right-rotated …
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Here I suggest that practically all talk about ethics and morality is actually virtue signaling—with special reference to religion in general, and Buddhism (my religion) in particular. h/t
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you wouldn’t want an environment where there was social pressure to be virtuous
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you wouldn't want an environment where there was social pressure to display the most superficial possible simulacra of virtue, without doing an actual @Effect_Altruism or preserving any actual civilizational stability & sustainability.
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