{"id":35651,"date":"2018-06-30T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35651"},"modified":"2018-06-30T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T16:25:18","slug":"outsourcing-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35651","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/straightlinelogic.com\/2018\/06\/29\/outsourcing-morality-by-robert-gore\/\">Outsourcing Morality<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/images.politico.com\/global\/news\/090402_brown_clinton.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Brown and Bill Clinton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>All the benefits of virtue without the costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember when you had to do something virtuous to signal your virtue? Some of the virtuous way back when did virtuous acts and didn\u2019t even tell anyone else about them. If you go into older museums and other civic monuments and look at donors\u2019 names on plaques, you\u2019ll find anonymous donors. They didn\u2019t get a wing named after them, there were no press releases, they just gave to a good cause and that was its own reward. If they were alive today, they wouldn\u2019t have Twitter feeds. Private virtue and public anonymity\u2014incomprehensible!<\/p>\n<p>At least plutocrats who plaster their names where they donate are donating their own money. Perhaps the most odious form of virtue signaling demands everyone\u2019s taxes fund a chosen cause, then claims the same moral stature as the plutocrats. Strictly speaking this can\u2019t be virtue signaling. There\u2019s no virtue, only coercion and theft. The merit, if any, of the cause never justifies the immoral means used to fund it.<\/p>\n<p>Gresham\u2019s law of virtue: phony virtue drives out the real thing. It\u2019s partly mathematical\u2014what the government steals cannot be donated\u2014but it goes much deeper.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an intergenerational understanding rooted in biology: parents take care of children when they\u2019re young; children take of parents when they\u2019re old. Rearing children and caring for aging parents impose inconvenient burdens, but for most of history people had little choice, the only alternative was neglect and abandonment. Enter the state. In most Western countries responsibility for both child rearing and elder care has in whole or in part shifted to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outsourcing Morality Ron Brown and Bill Clinton All the benefits of virtue without the costs. Remember when you had to do something virtuous to signal your virtue? Some of the virtuous way back when did virtuous acts and didn\u2019t even tell anyone else about them. If you go into older museums and other civic monuments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[8328,15066,5406,19108,20365],"class_list":["post-35651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-morality","tag-outsourcing","tag-responsibility","tag-virtue","tag-virtue-signalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35652,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35651\/revisions\/35652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}