And likewise, they don't have to be at all.
People preach about X.
People can have skeletons in their closet.
These are separate circles on a Venn diagram.
Is Outrage Porn ethical?
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People preach about X.
People can have skeletons in their closet.
These are separate circles on a Venn diagram.
Cloud_Strife
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Same with those that assert they are any different from those they laugh at online, those that take pleasure from what they see as others being broken are more often than not broken themselves.
After all, those that spend any degree of time seriously punching down on an individual with multiple problems beyond their control, surely have deep, gaping issues of inferiority and self esteem.
I think we can both agree on this, @CurtSibling
CurtSibling
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Of course. You may also have people who are seemingly bad, but are secretly moral.
Possibilities abound.
Cloud_Strife
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Such as?
Hygro
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Yo dude mos def for sure
aelf
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Yeah, and the OP really takes me back to 2012. Ah, the good old days.
CurtSibling
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You are knocking my comment about morals?
Or just just arguing for the heck of it...
Either way, it's fine.
Berzerker
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from the piece:
Its bad enough when a preacher is guilty Monday of what he condemned Sunday, but when the flock makes excuses for him while expressing outrage at others the stink becomes unbearable. Most everyone if not all of us are guilty of this to varying degrees, thats why virtue signalling has a problem with hypocrisy. Treating people equally is hard, especially friends vs foes.
r16
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what a stupid thread title and stuff with no intention of slighting anyone especially the thread starter and the like but this seems to be best place . (Because the country ı live in to start with , leading so many options of mistranslation .)
so , kids are not that dumb , the very act of growing up involves observing what others do and how they do and sometimes it happens that a kid will see his/her peers as lacking in whatever field and stuff and aspire to be older before its time and whatnot . Adults are like there to help kids grow up and there's nothing particularly wrong about being a role model and whatnot , depending on one's integrity and stuff .
for contact with adults might also result in meeting predators and this is no joke ... Especially if one is a parent ... Better if you can put them predators on the wall , suitably filled with hay if possible . If not , it's better to let the kids know of the risks and what not .
(this stems from the boy who asked what ı was doing [for real] . No satisfactory answer to that until the first starship appears in the orbit , so ı was appropriately savage according to the situation . Track record would lead to such , ı was told long ago , that maybe there were things unseen and maybe r16 was just a little more than the silly shorty fatso he actually is . )
even more dreadful ? So , this is actually Stuntwoman approved and the candidates are to be Starfleet Academy graduates only ... Am saved or something if anything happens in that direction , because Academy chooses its students on its own ... And commanders will get no options to do anything , as instantly approved by the Klingon Spacemarine chick date . She is quite famous for raising difficult people , leading the way by example , too .
so , kids are not that dumb , the very act of growing up involves observing what others do and how they do and sometimes it happens that a kid will see his/her peers as lacking in whatever field and stuff and aspire to be older before its time and whatnot . Adults are like there to help kids grow up and there's nothing particularly wrong about being a role model and whatnot , depending on one's integrity and stuff .
for contact with adults might also result in meeting predators and this is no joke ... Especially if one is a parent ... Better if you can put them predators on the wall , suitably filled with hay if possible . If not , it's better to let the kids know of the risks and what not .
(this stems from the boy who asked what ı was doing [for real] . No satisfactory answer to that until the first starship appears in the orbit , so ı was appropriately savage according to the situation . Track record would lead to such , ı was told long ago , that maybe there were things unseen and maybe r16 was just a little more than the silly shorty fatso he actually is . )
even more dreadful ? So , this is actually Stuntwoman approved and the candidates are to be Starfleet Academy graduates only ... Am saved or something if anything happens in that direction , because Academy chooses its students on its own ... And commanders will get no options to do anything , as instantly approved by the Klingon Spacemarine chick date . She is quite famous for raising difficult people , leading the way by example , too .
TheMeInTeam
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No, it isn't ethical. It isn't illegal either. The best practice would be for people to largely ignore such drivel unless it makes outright false assertions (meeting standards for libel for example). Can't viably police human preference on where to turn attention, even if some people have annoying/detrimental preferences. Wouldn't want that arbitrary standard thrown back at me or population in general.
I will go so far as to argue that most "virtue signalers" probably *are* hypocritical. I only have anecdotal evidence for this, but I suspect the evidence the piece draws on to be no better.
I will go so far as to argue that most "virtue signalers" probably *are* hypocritical. I only have anecdotal evidence for this, but I suspect the evidence the piece draws on to be no better.
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Including those who adamantly keep pointing out they don't pretend to be better than everyone else by being politically correct or virtue signalling, signalling that they, in fact, are better than 'those' people.
TheMeInTeam
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I can't speak for others, but if I think I'm better than someone I'm willing to say so more directly than just "signaling". I usually try to point out why that is. Of course, I'm also hypocritical sometimes.
That said, keep in mind that everyone here is constrained by forum rules to which we agreed when making our accounts. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that on occasion this has shaped what I posted more than any notion of virtue or belief in a higher self standard
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Dekker
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I can't speak for others, but if I think I'm better than someone I'm willing to say so more directly than just "signaling". I usually try to point out why that is. Of course, I'm also hypocritical sometimes.
That said, keep in mind that everyone here is constrained by forum rules to which we agreed when making our accounts. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that on occasion this has shaped what I posted more than any notion of virtue or belief in a higher self standard
Just to clarify my post was not directed to you, I was agreeing with you and expanding your observation with my observation.
Claiming moral superiority is not just the domain of certain 'groups'
Berzerker
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eh, I kinda screwed that up... Its bad enough when the preacher is guilty the day before on Saturday for what he condemns Sunday. If he's innocent Sunday and becomes guilty the next day on Monday then he's not guilty of hypocrisy.
GenMarshall
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Outrage porn ethical? I just find it annoying.
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