But this ambiguity allows people to defend the morality of virtue signaling by focusing on cases where someone simply does something good in public. They say, “what could possibly be wrong with ...

But while we should admire our ancestors, we need to guard against a false nostalgia that imagines we were once a race predominately of moral ... must the public voices of private virtue be ...

Such a person should put no other personal or private pledges ahead of the public oath of ... was also referred to as virtue, which expanded the standard meaning of moral integrity.