Re:Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?
by romaniitedomum on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:04PM
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> I wasn't raised Catholic, but the way I heard it, committing a venal sin counting on it being negligible because it was venal is, itself, a mortal sin -- which tickled me at the time.
No, a sin is either venal or mortal. The intent of the sinner doesn't enter into it.
> Also, that only the sins since your last confession, or communion, or something, count in any way at all.
If you confess a sin and ask forgiveness, it's forgiven. Your slate is wiped clean.
> Or what, exactly, would be meant by a "virginal purity test".
Simply that many in social media demand a level of purity in thought and action from commenters and other writers that rivals in its puritanical zeal the worst excesses of the most ignorant village mullah.
> No. You are tying yourself in knots; which is your privilege. Please don't entangle me in them.
But if virtue signalling is sanctimony, a point which you have not refuted, and complaining about virtue signalling is sanctimony, then complaining about sanctimony is indeed sanctimonious. Any entanglement is of your own making.
No, a sin is either venal or mortal. The intent of the sinner doesn't enter into it.
> Also, that only the sins since your last confession, or communion, or something, count in any way at all.
If you confess a sin and ask forgiveness, it's forgiven. Your slate is wiped clean.
> Or what, exactly, would be meant by a "virginal purity test".
Simply that many in social media demand a level of purity in thought and action from commenters and other writers that rivals in its puritanical zeal the worst excesses of the most ignorant village mullah.
> No. You are tying yourself in knots; which is your privilege. Please don't entangle me in them.
But if virtue signalling is sanctimony, a point which you have not refuted, and complaining about virtue signalling is sanctimony, then complaining about sanctimony is indeed sanctimonious. Any entanglement is of your own making.