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Or maybe take a shot at charity and empathy rather than condescension and pedantry?
Empathy for cheap-talk virtue-signaling is how civilization fails.
I'm sure there's some wisdom to that point of view, but it doesn't seem like just acting like a jerk is likely to be an especially effective solution.
Depends on the intent: humiliate or educate? Most people know exactly zero about that which they make a fuss about, which I believe is his point. Never underestimate how bamboozled the majority of people are about the majority of things, both of us included.
I don't recall 'virtue signalling' being mentioned in Jared Diamond's _Collapse_. Action is needed, obviously. Studying is only one possible reaction to concern.
Citation needed
I just virtue signal that I heard a podcast once about methane clathrate
Someone tell the Romans that. How exactly did empathy for cheap-talk virtue-signaling bring about the fall of the Roman Empire? I missed that bit in all my history classes
And I thought the original tweet was going to be winner of “Smuggest Tweet of the Week.”
Give me "virtue signallers" over those who signal a lack of virtue, any day.
It definitely leads people to parroting talking points and bumper sticker quotes, rather than engaging in good research.
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