What is your most lukewarm take?
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Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used, and I would probably agree with many of them, but you went with:
There's no incentive for showing compassion online, apart from virtue signaling.
If you believe there is NO other reason to be nice, other than virtue signaling, that means that EVERY time you see someone being nice online, you assume that they are only doing it to create the illusion of being a nice person.
This is where phrasing comes in.
If you said many or most people are only nice for this reason, we could debate the quantity, but for the most part I'd agree with that.
But you said there is no other incentive. I have no interest in virtue signaling, but I do like to be compassionate online. I can think of various reasons why I personally show compassion online. Since you can't think of a single other reason, it must be because you've never experienced them. I must assume that any time that I see you showing compassion, it must be because you are virtue signaling, because that's the only reason you've ever experienced, and you assume that everyone else is doing the same.
Perhaps you didn't mean exactly what you wrote, but based on the words you used, that's what you told us.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Excuse my phrasing, but I stand by what I wrote. Tried to keep it brief.
Online platforms today do not offer any incentive for true positive behaviour, due to lack of community.
By the way your response and all the downvoting kinda proves my point. Compassion shows also in how you process what you read
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I think most people get a dopamine response from being kind.
Ok well maybe there is a very very tiny incentive (compared to real world behaviour) but it really pales in comparison to all the general cold-heartedness
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Anti-Stratfordians are classist kooks who completely ignore historical research, historical context, and evolving literary criticism, and thereby miss what actually makes Shakespeare uniquely enduring among his peers. I know I'm actually in the mainstream here. I just hate them sooooo much, it... it was like flames... FLAMES on the side of my face...
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There's no incentive for showing compassion online, apart from virtue signaling
wrote last edited by [email protected]There's no incentive to virtue signal either, though.
For most users there's no incentives of any kind, and they go to their default, which is alternatingly butthurt and mildly helpful. A minority are sadistic, virtue signaling or similar. And of course, everyone is horny.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
You sit on top of a Kawasaki Jet Ski.
You sit in a SeaDoo Jett Ski.
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A violent revolution won't solve anything
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's warmish on Lemmy, although even here 99% of them are armchair revolutionaries and actually quite comfortable as things are.
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I don't want to hear about your dog or baby.
Dogs, fuck yeah. Babies, ugh.
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Different strokes for different folks.
As a stroke survivor, I knew I was always getting the short end of the stick, but damn I really struck out
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I like putting black cardamom in my chai
You can't just make up words like that
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We're about due for another asteroid impact.
Fucking finally đ„ș
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There's no incentive to virtue signal either, though.
For most users there's no incentives of any kind, and they go to their default, which is alternatingly butthurt and mildly helpful. A minority are sadistic, virtue signaling or similar. And of course, everyone is horny.
Of course there is incentive for online virtue signaling - all the likes and shares and attention.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
I'm okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like "it's not stealing it's just copying," among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you're doing. There's so much free media out there you don't need to pirate the stuff that isn't.
Personally I'm okay with being told I'm a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I'm broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I'm a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
âBrutal honestyâ motherfuckers just want to be mean. Also they canât handle honesty from others at all.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
People who destroy public toilets with piss or shit should be forced to sit down for a year. Public bathrooms would be cleaner for it.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
Private soil farming is a great business model. Low cost, high demand. With fewer chemicals and wider practice, the trade will be more sustainable.
More houses will be 3D printed â and smaller â in the future.
The internal combustion engine is the largest technological mis-step in human history.
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âBrutal honestyâ motherfuckers just want to be mean. Also they canât handle honesty from others at all.
Allied with - "I just say it like it is", nope motherfucker, you say it like you see it, consider you might be wrong.
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I'm okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like "it's not stealing it's just copying," among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you're doing. There's so much free media out there you don't need to pirate the stuff that isn't.
Personally I'm okay with being told I'm a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I'm broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I'm a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.
You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
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Dogs, fuck yeah. Babies, ugh.
Awe but they're so cute!
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Ok well maybe there is a very very tiny incentive (compared to real world behaviour) but it really pales in comparison to all the general cold-heartedness
Sometimes people are just nice.
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Of course there is incentive for online virtue signaling - all the likes and shares and attention.
It seems to me positive attention comes out of compassion as well, unless it only counts when there's no extrinsic motivation for it.
There is quite a lot of compassionate-seeming exchanges you can find on here, right?
