Are you wearing a mask inside, and why? — Bitter Crank
That being said, if wearing a mask becomes an issue of conformity and virtue signaling, I will not be wearing one. — NOS4A2
- self-contamination that can occur by touching and reusing contaminated mask — NOS4A2
The scientific consensus seems to be that unless one is wearing an N95 mask, and wearing it properly, one is probably not limiting the distribution of corona virus much. — Bitter Crank
That's a good counter-signal, right there. See if people are signalling something, so you can react by counter-signalling. Nothing like defining yourself by countersignalling signals. Some would think that this way-of-living suggests a resentment that has metastasized - why would anyone base their choices around reactions to others' choices otherwise? defining themselves in terms of the people they hate, even as a negative outline?
But who knows, really?
Maybe you just know that when you walk into a convenience store without a mask, people will know you're the real deal, no limp-noodle liberal. 'That's a cool guy,' people with sunglasses on motorcycles will say, 'That's not someone who has tragically come to define himself entirely in reaction to the people he professes to hate, so that nothing of himself is left. He's just a very cool, not-sad-at-all guy.'
There is no such scientific consensus. — SophistiCat
what makes you think they are ineffective? — Judaka
The great thing about 'virtue signaling' is that people identify the signaler as being virtuous, without the signaler having to actually go to the considerable inconvenience of being virtuous. — Bitter Crank
The great thing about labeling behaviours as "virtue signaling" is that you get to identify the signaler as a hypocrite and can dismiss both them and their behaviour without having to actually go to the considerable inconvenience of questioning your own behaviour. — Echarmion
The great thing about dismissing the 'labelling of behaviours as virtue signalling', is that you get to ignore the problems with virtue signalling whilst maintaining your ability to gain the social advantages of doing so.
We could go on... — Isaac
Other people proclaiming how virtuous they are makes you relatively less virtuous by comparison. — VagabondSpectre
The great thing about labeling behaviours as "virtue signaling" is that you get to identify the signaler as a hypocrite and can dismiss both them and their behaviour without having to actually go to the considerable inconvenience of questioning your own behaviour. — Echarmion
That's of course nonsense, and not anything I said. — Echarmion
So why should we question our own behavior when we encounter someone that is "virtue signaling"?
Is it because we should be jealous of their virtue? — VagabondSpectre
It seems like the best strategy is to avoid using hasty generalisations like that in the first place. It's not like you cannot debate the pros and cons of a behaviour without engaging in armchair psychoanalysis. — Echarmion
The great thing about arguing over virtue signalling is that we get to waste time arguing instead of ... ah fuck it, I'm going to watch Netflix — Marchesk
How do you know they are virtue signaling and not actually virtuous? Just saying they're "just signalling" doesn't make it so. — Echarmion
Indeed. Although a bit of armchair psychoanalysis might be thrown in for good measure...after all, we're doing everything else here from the armchair here, why not psychoanalysis too? — Isaac
Sometimes they doth virtue signal too much, me thinks... — VagabondSpectre
I am saying we shouldn't do it because it doesn't usually end well. I am not judging someone. — Echarmion
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