DANIEL SCHMACHTENBERGER - Real Virtue VS Virtue Signalling

how do we do better since making those epistemic scan be weaponized and we can talk about how critical thinking and how dialectics and whatever can be weaponized but insofar as it's also talking about not just what is true but what is good right like in the true the good in the beautiful kind of sense what are we what are the kind of world were wanting to build then of course any virtue can be weaponized which has virtue signaling and again these I'm talking about topics that everybody's talking about right now I'm just hopefully trying to talk about them in a slightly different way to say everyone on all sides are oriented to do versions of this as opposed to those guys are virtue signaling and us calling them out is us demonstrating our actual virtue but we're not virtue signaling and so one way that I think of the distinction between real virtue and virtue signaling is virtue signaling is when it's clear that an enough people hold a particular trait as a virtue that if I seem to have that virtue it would be good for me right the people would like me except me agree with me by my stuff like my ideas whatever it is so if I signal if I communicate in some way that I have that virtue it's beneficial for me in straight self-serving ways right so I have a reason to signal the virtue beyond my authentic living of it and this is where rather than I'm just doing what I'm doing and people notice the virtue that I happen to to be living I am intentionally trying to seem virtuous of a particular kind more than I am trying to actually live that thing right and this is where the you know Jesus saying don't let the right hand see what the left hand was doing and I think every culture that has wisdom has some quotes like that because virtue signaling is forever right and it's whatever the dominant culture is whatever the thing that is seen as virtue there so during you know during the early Soviet empire Marxist ideology people would virtue signal being more Marxist right and during Dark Age Catholic reign the virtue signalling was about being better Catholics and you know so now left and right have their own versions of virtue signaling to their own base and so politicians and companies and social leaders are oriented to signal the thing they would need to in that way a real virtue is something that is that I care about that I value actually hopefully something that is sacred to me that I am willing to experience personal sacrifice for not that my signalling of it creates personal gain but I am willing to lose personal gain in service of this because it's more important than personal gain to me so I'm willing to lose some dollars to have my company not do that thing because I hold a virtue or an ethic that won't have me do that thing even if it would make me more dollars or I'm willing to lose some followers or get some not you know people dislike what I'm saying or whatever to stand up for something because I actually meaningfully believe in it right most people are willing to be disliked by the group that they identify as enemies though they might even take pride in it because they're doing in-group out-group Machiavellian stuff but am I willing to lose likes and support by the people that I'm trying to end group with is where it's actually consequential because losing the ones that I've already lost isn't consequential so then I get to weaponize see I'm willing to make a sacrifice and have enemies which is actually weaponizing the idea of sacrifice itself we can also see that so yeah the difference between virtue and virtue signaling is real virtue is not trying to signal to other people something it is trying to actually live something and it is willing to stand for something where it is personally disadvantageous and so you can see someone's virtue in the series of choices they have made that have been hard choices so when someone tells me that they're interested in impact investing with their financial services fund I go through and I say show me in record the series of investment choices you made where you turn down money because of an ethic just show me the the record of those and usually they can't do a good job at that and then I say off because I know that now impact investing just happens to be the virtue that signals a particular niche of capital or whatever but there's no real earnest ISM [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Thu Feb 27 2020