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Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person
by admissionsguy 10mo ago
Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person
- jen729w 10mo agoSounds like he’s a twat.
- admissionsguy 10mo agoIsn't falling for virtue signalling charity donations more of a twattery?
- slg 10mo agoIt is always enlightening when people criticizing "virtue signaling" accidentally reveal that the problem they have is not the signaling, it's the having virtue.
- msandford 10mo agoThere was a time when one of the virtues was not to brag about how virtuous you were. I think that's why a lot of folks have a problem with virtue signalling. In their minds if you're signalling by doing something publicly it karmically negates what you're doing and almost alchemically turns it into something resembling vice. I'm merely trying to explain how it is that people can have a problem with virtue signalling and to them it doesn't really contradict what is to them true virtue where you do something good and stay quiet about it.
- slg 10mo agoThis comment feels like it was made outside the context of the existing conversation. The comment I replied to was calling all charity virtue signaling and not just vocal giving. But either way, I personally don’t think a library is any less valuable to a community just because it has Carnegie’s name above the entrance.
- bootsmann 10mo agoSociety providing incentives for rich people to give money to charitable causes is good actually. An evil person doing good things for selfish reasons is still doing good things.
- Libidinalecon 10mo agoThe real problem comes when you look up what charity actually does with the money. It is hard to not get the feeling that outside of the local food bank, most charities are a type of money making scam when you dig into what they do with the money.
- afavour 10mo agoIf you choose to classify all charity donations as "virtue signaling", yes. If you reject that absurd false framing, no.
- array_key_first 10mo agoIt's not virtue signally if you're tangible helping people. Like if I give away food, maybe I have the intent of signalling something, but I'm also giving away food. That actually happened. The world would be a much better place if rich people virtue signalled much more and thereby donated more.
- InexSquirrel 10mo agoHonest doesn't make good.
- array_key_first 10mo ago> in exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating scandal >> Refreshing honest ?