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>"Setting goals with timelines is not insincere, grandstanding, or hypocritical." Having a timeline is not the main issue, the issue is that the timeline seems

>"Setting goals with timelines is not insincere, grandstanding, or hypocritical." Having a timeline is not the main issue, the issue is that the timeline seems aggressive and the perception is that there isn't enough to enable this transition. It is like how a politician campaigns on reducing the deficit or 'reforming education' but there is little substance or viability with their stance. >"Nor is wearing clean clothes and brushing your hair." I do not know how this entered the comparison but no one would consider this virtue signalling.

rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>the issue is that the timeline seems aggressive To who? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of municipalities around the world which have all set the virtually identical targets. >I do not know how this entered the comparison but no one would consider this virtue signalling. They are literally, in the literal sense of the word literal, definition-matching actions to the phrase "virtue signaling". >the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. Clean clothes: I can afford to, have the time to, and the will to bathe and wash which are morally correct things to do and which reflect my good character when it comes to cleanliness in society. "no no no its got to be political" Clean air isn't political.
- BitwiseFool 4y ago
  >"They are literally, in the literal sense of the word literal, definition-matching actions to the phrase "virtue signaling". And this is the definition you shared: "the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue." Emphasis mine, wearing clean clothes and grooming is not publicly expressing opinions and sentiments about one's own good character.

rocket_surgeron 4y ago

>the issue is that the timeline seems aggressive To who? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of municipalities around the world which have all set the virtually identical targets. >I do not know how this entered the comparison but no one would consider this virtue signalling. They are literally, in the literal sense of the word literal, definition-matching actions to the phrase "virtue signaling". >the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. Clean clothes: I can afford to, have the time to, and the will to bathe and wash which are morally correct things to do and which reflect my good character when it comes to cleanliness in society. "no no no its got to be political" Clean air isn't political.

BitwiseFool 4y ago
>"They are literally, in the literal sense of the word literal, definition-matching actions to the phrase "virtue signaling". And this is the definition you shared: "the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue." Emphasis mine, wearing clean clothes and grooming is not publicly expressing opinions and sentiments about one's own good character.