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>I'd prefer to invest most of the money

Is "I don't own a car" the new "I don't own a TV" virtue signalling?

Seriously, you are offering up your opinion on a product you admittedly have no knowledge of,and no interest in owning.

Everything humans do, including asking questions about virtue signalling, is virtue signaling.

That said, although I don’t own a car, I didn’t actually say that in my previous post. I’m lucky that where I live, I don’t need to. That situation is likely to change, and I have no intention to build an identity of, or make a virtue out of, either having or not having a car. If that seems contradictory, consider it virtue signaling “flexibility”.

>Everything humans do, including asking questions about virtue signalling, is virtue signaling.

Do you not believe in the existence of true dialectics?

I had to look up the word dialectics. Rarely, is my answer to the definition I saw, and to my memory thus far only in the context that the tripartite definition of knowledge is horribly flawed because nobody can be 100% certain that what they call knowledge is really true, that instead all we have is the belief — an opinion, in one sense of the word — that the thing we are claiming to know is in fact true.

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