Summary Of Virtue Signaling By Jane Coaston

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Jane Coaston, a writer and a journalist who published this article to initiate a conversation about human virtue and trust in the current society. The example has been provided to show that the natural instinct for human to make a spectacle of goodness has a possibility to make them as hypocrites. Moreover, the writer demonstrates that people concern more nowadays is whether others judge them as good or not, which could be the reason why the current time becomes an actual golden age for hypocrites to advertise themselves. The literature further explained the term “virtue signaling”, which discussed different consequences of moral outrage. However, the author argues that the informal expression cannot represent certain and sincere concerns from

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