Why does virtually every internet conversation degenerate into a bun fight over who is a better person or who suffered more? This phenomenon has a name — moral grandstanding — and a new philosophy book, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" discusses why we do it, and how we can stop.
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