If someone says 'you're virtue-signaling', do you take that as:
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Signaling, I think, means trying to draw attention to your virtues rather than just acting on them. Hard to think of it as anything but self-serving. Social condemnation for bad behaviors is important, but when it's done in reference to one's own qualities, it seems shallow.
How would evolution favor any behavior that isn't 'self-serving' at some level?
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Evolution affects populations, not individuals, so it would make sense for some behaviors to develop that have a beneficial impact on a population even if it's at the expense of an individual, right?
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Waters are slightly muddied by the complexity of our societal relationships. Is the soldier who jumps on a grenade serving his own interests? How about the firefighter who walks back into the burning building one more time because they hear a scream?
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Right... I started writing something about self-sacrifice as not being self-serving, but I figured he'd respond that our 'hero worship' for those who give their lives for others *does* give the hero a self-serving sense of self-satisfaction...
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