> Virtue signaling motivates action. If it ripples across a community, it can cause a lot of good to be done. More money is given, more masks are worn, and more

> Virtue signaling motivates action. If it ripples across a community, it can cause a lot of good to be done. More money is given, more masks are worn, and more political pressure is applied. I've seen a lot of people publicly offer their time to those who are struggling during the quarantine. Maybe they do this in public to get praise, but they also do it so that people will reach out to them. At first a handful of people did this and then it caught on and many more did. Counterpoint: reasoned arguments are a much better way to motivate action. Groups and their norms often end up homogenizing opinions which in the long run ends up working against the group and its members by reducing the space of possible ideas.