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Comment by jpfed

>Someone who is publicly altruistic, is likely to gain compliments and plaudits from others.

I suspect this is also the basis of the behavior of criticizing "virtue-signaling". In both cases, the punisher wants to be sure that the goodie-two-shoes doesn't get to benefit from others recognizing them.

parent jpfed 8 years ago

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