{"id":236,"date":"2020-01-29T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=236"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:20:33","slug":"whats-wrong-with-virtue-signaling-by-ben-bayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/whats-wrong-with-virtue-signaling-by-ben-bayer\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Wrong with &#8220;Virtue Signaling&#8221;? by Ben Bayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about celebrities who tweet about their politics all the time, or think about companies who want you to buy their products because they\u2019re supposedly eco-friendly. Some say that these are symptoms of an epidemic that\u2019s coursing it\u2019s way through social media and through our political discourse generally, an epidemic they call \u201cvirtue signalling\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Bayer, a fellow at The Ayn Rand Institute, has some questions about this. You\u2019re said to be a virtue signaller when you promote some cause or criticize some figure people love to hate in a way that doesn\u2019t involve much cost, but which draws attention to your own right way of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What, if anything, is wrong with this kind of behavior? Is there a kind of behavior here at all or do the critics of virtue signalling lump together lots of different things? Is speaking out ineffective only because it\u2019s speaking? Does profiting from the judgment of others make you insincere?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Ben Bayer and explore the question: What\u2019s wrong with \u201cvirtue signalling\u201d?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about celebrities who tweet about their politics all the time, or think about companies who want you to buy their products because they\u2019re supposedly eco-friendly. Some say that these are symptoms of an epidemic that\u2019s coursing it\u2019s way through social media and through our political discourse generally, an epidemic they call \u201cvirtue signalling\u201d. Ben&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,467,13,489,12,537,473,158,536,11],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ben-bayer","tag-ethics","tag-justice","tag-philosophy","tag-public","tag-the-virtue-of-selfishness","tag-values","tag-vanity","tag-virtue","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}