Something makes my blood boil when I see something donated to help people, instead turn into an egotistical monument to the people that donated it. Just do a good thing without patting yourself on the back.
It's very transparent when somebody contrives a reason to do something good because they prioritise based on what gains them the most social favour. Everybody is aware of it and recognises what they're doing, everyone.
But it then allows egoists to discredit people who do good things as 'virtue signalling' because they can't admit there genuinely is a world where opportunities to go good present them selves (which is everywhere all the time) and people act selflessly in response.
Eh, who gives a shit? A water tank is a water tank. If the atheist sub did a good thing exclusively to be smug assholes about it - more power to them. Caring about motive here seems like unnecessary moralism to me.
Something makes my blood boil when I see something donated to help people, instead turn into an egotistical monument to the people that donated it. Just do a good thing without patting yourself on the back.
It's very transparent when somebody contrives a reason to do something good because they prioritise based on what gains them the most social favour. Everybody is aware of it and recognises what they're doing, everyone.
But it then allows egoists to discredit people who do good things as 'virtue signalling' because they can't admit there genuinely is a world where opportunities to go good present them selves (which is everywhere all the time) and people act selflessly in response.
Eh, who gives a shit? A water tank is a water tank. If the atheist sub did a good thing exclusively to be smug assholes about it - more power to them. Caring about motive here seems like unnecessary moralism to me.
Well I think they were virtue signalling on purpose though. I think it's supposed to be a jab at missionaries, like "see, we can do it too!"
So... chapo chat branded windmills are out of the question?
Maybe just one