“If the silver rule (definition of “the bad” via defining “not good”), creates a

—“If the silver rule (definition of “the bad” via defining “not good”), creates a clearing for people to seek and define any possible good (a market for the good) then we could classify the desirable behavior in this market as virtues. Now signaling has a value. We cant reduce virtue to signaling only. But rather to decoupling signaling as a basis for moral judgements (decidability), and coupling it to the idea of manufacturing “the good”… thinking in terms of Adam Smith’s argument for “being lovely”. Being held in high esteem (loveliness) by those we respect, which we’d call reputation, incentivizes us to produce “the good”. This is why I don’t like signaling to take a back seat to consequentialism or to discount it as a juvenile sentiment – Because it’s important: it serves us in decidability.”— Bill Joslin