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0 pointsf6v5y ago0 comments

Why though? It makes people doing it feel better and requires little effort. Anything else other than virtue signaling is hard and expensive.

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torgian5y ago· 2 in thread

It's virtue signaling. It does nothing, and 99% of the people aren't going to see these terms and racially charged.

dannypgh5y ago

I appreciate knowing my colleagues have virtues. How is that doing nothing?

yakshaving_jgt5y ago

Do you think moral posturing as a means to gaining political and/or social capital when nothing is at stake is of any real value? Because that’s what virtue signalling is, and that’s what most people fighting the good fight in these comments are doing.

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ThrowawayR25y ago

> "It makes people doing it feel better and requires little effort."

Security theater often makes people feel better and requires little effort. Should we embrace security theater instead of improving security?

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