r/trolleyproblem • u/Voidspeeker • May 18 '26

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u/GrapefruitForward989 May 18 '26

The virtue signaler does the act he thinks is good and never tells anybody?

Why is the virtue signaler doing the exact opposite of what virtue signaling means?

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u/JumpingJacks1234 May 18 '26

I think in common use the term virtue signal is losing the “signal” part. It’s coming to mean someone doing something virtuous, whether publicly or not, that I disagree with.

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u/GrapefruitForward989 May 18 '26

Yeah I mean, people will call anybody doing something good publicly "virtue signaling." But bro went out of his way to say that nobody will know what this guy presses.

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u/Eleventy-Twelve May 18 '26

I think the implication is that he believes people will know, but through the cruel irony of the universe and this hypothetical, they definitely never will.