[๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐น๐ต: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐น๐ช๐ด๐ต.]
Her point โchildren and civilians dying = badโ
His point โthat clashes with reality, you canโt care about every civilian or child dying everywhere all at once, itโs impossible. Instead focus on your immediate community, instead of trying to care about every child and citizen from every country in the world all at once โ
Her response โI careโ
Sheโs on ground level while heโs talking three levels above her. Sheโs virtue signaling, heโs in reality.
Be emotional all you want, throw a tantrum, heโs right here
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Each man's death diminishes me,
-John Donne, 1624
In the original technical sense, โvirtue signalingโ meant making a show of what you believe in (or purport to believe in, in the case of people who are insincere) in small, often subtle ways. The non-technical usage of the term is currently all over the place, with no clear definition, beyond something which is done by โother people that I donโt likeโ.
Without further context (which I donโt feel like looking at) appears that the OP is saying โdonโt look at the forest, only the trees. Looking at the forest is a sign of immaturity and disconnect from what really mattersโ. Iโd argue thatโs very wrong - people should be looking at both large-scale issues and small-scale subsets of them, and people who concentrate on one or the other shouldnโt disrespect the other side of it, as both are important. In that sense, one could flip the metaphor and say the OP is on the ground level and sheโs looking from higher up.
But based on the wording and tone I suspect that the OP is one of those people who donโt understand empathy beyond the tribe (whatever they perceive as their โtribeโ), and even then, only on a rather superficial level.
I think youโre confusing โcaringโ with โthinking about.โ No I cannot list every single injustice in the world in my head simultaneously. I CAN, however, hold that each injustice is an injustice, i can care that world authorities are either ignoring or supporting the injusticies, or praising them. I can care that our leaders who pose as moral authorities are not using their influence to limit vast cases of unnecessary death, starvation, disequality, and brain-dead boobies choosing not to vaccinate while demanding absolutely no reprecussions, and those pardoning felons because of how they voted.
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