LETTER: When ‘moral distancing’, realise that there is a real-world effect
Before going splenetic on Facebook about some or other ‘fascist apologist’, why not take a moment to reflect on why you’re doing what you’re doing?
18 May 2020 - 17:54
Social distancing is a vice that’s been converted to good effect. Moral distancing is a virtue that’s been causing endless harm.
Moral distancing is something all of us do every day, for the most part unwittingly. It’s a learnt habit involving the registering of distaste for some or other person, party, entity or cause. The way it works in an age of social media is that as we signal our hostility, publicly, we get a rush of dopamine and, in short order, a raft of affirmations from those who share our preferences. ..
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