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Using the phrase “virtue signaling” seems to be a sort of “virtue signal”. Does it make you uncomfortable that someone would make a decision from a place of va
by ada1981 8y ago
Using the phrase “virtue signaling” seems to be a sort of “virtue signal”.
Does it make you uncomfortable that someone would make a decision from a place of values and ethics? Or that they’d discuss it?
- sbinthree 8y agoCigarettes are "generally accepted non-virtuous behavior". Virtue signaling might mean doing something that anyone expects to be baseline "good person" behavior, but inappropriately advertising this fact. People tend to prefer to see virtue and identify it, much like people can safely refer to others as a genius but referring to themselves in that light suggests a lack of genius. Heaping praise on others for their virtuous actions is fine, where as attracting that praise in a form like this maybe not.
- ada1981 8y agoGenerally I find policing the expression of others to be a function of some disowned or repressed part of the policer.