Signaling Virtue

Psychology Today ^ | 4/21/20 | Robert J. King PHD

[DallasBiff]

Can I trust you? Wait … can I really trust you? What if you’d given me your word that you’d never betray me, but then you discovered that betraying me could make you really rich, or really successful, or even just a bit happier?

A lot of us discover—sometimes too late—that verbal contracts aren’t worth the paper they are printed on. But, what about social contracts? What about the warp and weft of what keeps humans making moral sense to one another?

This always matters. But, it matters especially at the moment, when we are all deciding how we should behave in the face of an enemy that doesn’t care about our values or our politics, no matter how loudly (or increasingly desperately) they are shouted. How do we make sense of these conflicts?

This always matters. But, it matters especially at the moment, when we are all deciding how we should behave in the face of an enemy that doesn’t care about our values or our politics, no matter how loudly (or increasingly desperately) they are shouted. How do we make sense of these conflicts?

Moral philosophers routinely distinguish two types of approaches to moral problems—deontology, and utilitarianism (a form of consequentialism). Deontology is (roughly) the idea that some actions are just beyond the pale, whatever the consequences. Utilitarians, on the other hand, argue that actions must only be judged relative to consequences

[DallasBiff]

I know from 4 years ago, from an overpaid professor, still remember when a karen, with a mask, took a picture of my license plate when I got out of my car, without a mask, to get an oil change in May, 2020.

Is leftist virtue signaling over?

[ClearCase_guy]

Since the article discusses “the trolley problem”, I thought I post a link to a very short video demonstrating the optimal solution according to those who are trying to save the planet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4

[reasonisfaith]

The writer left out some essential aspects of the part of moral philosophy he was trying to establish.

[reasonisfaith]

What he should have said was the potential bases for moral philosophies are:

1. consequences of violating the maxim, as in utilitarianism
2. the maxim itself
3. Divine Command

[reasonisfaith]

The only way psychologists—or anyone else—can escape divine command is to pretend God doesn’t exist because they prefer to follow own command.

[NWFree]

That one needs a bag on her head

[Boogieman]

It will never be over unless we can solve the West’s moral dilemma. The virtue signallers have abandoned actual morality but their consciences won’t shut up, so they are pretending to be moral, and patting each other on the back for their pretenses, to try to fool their consciences.

So unless we somehow convince them to go back to actual virtue instead of virtue signalling, this will continue, and escalate.