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When it comes to growing a community, why would signaling virtues be a bad thing? You would want to filter out the people who would never conform to your commun
by ironmagma 6y ago
When it comes to growing a community, why would signaling virtues be a bad thing? You would want to filter out the people who would never conform to your community expectations.
- tracker1 6y agoHaving a good heart is better than glitter on a paper heart on a sign. Virtue signaling is all about marketing, not about actually having virtues.
- ironmagma 6y agoCounterpoint: one cannot have virtues without, at some point, signalling them. At the very least through actions that copy the virtues from your brain into the physical world.
- tracker1 6y agoActions are fine, words aren't often worth the paper they're written on... And if it's in an advertisement, even less so.
- ironmagma 6y agoWe should be glad in this instance it was merely bits down a pipe, then. The written word has been a powerful tool for spreading adoption of new ideas since the printing press; the mere sense of prevalence of an idea throughout the world should inform the reader of something about the world they are living in, if not something fundamental about humanity.