CAN WE OUTLAW VIRTUE SIGNALING UNDER NATURAL LAW? by James Augustus Berens (flaw

CAN WE OUTLAW VIRTUE SIGNALING UNDER NATURAL LAW?

by James Augustus Berens

(flawless)(perfect argument)

Can we outlaw virtue signaling?

Yes, it would be limited by default under symmetrical exchange (natural law).

Virtue Signalling (modern): advocacy for asymmetric transfers of property without warranty, voluntary contract and/or full-accounting.

If we suppress asymmetric transfers of property-en-toto, then we limit individuals to compete for signals in the market for goods and services, the market for norms, the market for producing and maintaining commons, and the market for defense and rule.

We suppressed profiteering through interpersonal (in-group) violence (masculine), but we haven’t suppressed asymmetric profiteering from the production of gossip & [mis]information and by advocacy of involuntary transfers (feminine).

So the problem isn’t so much that humans signal virtue, status and rank, but that we have yet to sufficiently limit the market for signals to warrantied, productive, fully-informed exchanges

consisting of positive externalities.

And we can either have an institutional solution (high trust/cooperative/centralized cost) by extending the purview of natural law to include the production of information, or we can re-introduce interpersonal violence (low trust/competitive/distributed cost) as means of re-masculinizing our dominance hierarchies; thereby shifting signals from the feminine, consumptive and dysgenic to the masculine, accumulative and eugenic—and by consequence restoring western aristocratic civilization.