Tag: virtue signalling

• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

  I sometimes wonder what forgiveness actually means. But when I acknowledge my uncertainty, it sounds rather insensitive -stupid, almost. Forgiveness suggests -what?- indulgence, tolerance of a perceived or actual transgression. Leniency if not absolution. Often it also suggests, or expects, some sort of reciprocal reaction from the object of the largesse as well. It can…

  gozzter

  January 12, 2022

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  apologies, BBC Future series, cognitive dissonance, collectivistic cultures, decisional forgiveness, emotional forgiveness, forgiveness, guilt, Mark Twain, REACH intervention, social harmony, virtue signalling, William Park

• Virtues we write in water

  I’ve only recently stumbled on the concept of virtue signalling. The words seem self-explanatory enough, but their juxtaposition seems curious. I had always thought of virtue as being, if not invisible, then not openly displayed like chest hair or cleavage. Perhaps it’s my United Church lineage, or the fact that many of my formative years…

  gozzter

  November 18, 2020

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  Macquarie University in Sydney, Neil Levy, Shakespeare, virtue, virtue signalling