The case for virtuous virtue signalling | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Crystal Fleming, David Goodhart
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is It Too Much Virtue Signalling?
Virtue signalling has corrupting political consequences, in a way. It is ova problem because it's so much easier now to actually just do it than doing virtue signalling. If you spend all your political energy on am devisively virtue signalling, it's much harder then to manage conflict - which is what real politics is really all about. And i think identity comes in very much here, these political identities. I mean, i don't know much about the current state of things in britain, but our political identities are now such that if you identify s a democrat, a republican, it is really hard to stand up and say that this is our value as democrats or republic
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