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Grandstanding

Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke

Utterly obvious

randstanders often talk as if their views are utterly obvious. Anyone competent at making moral judgements would surely come to the same conclusions. This sort of talk can be used to signal that one’s moral sensibilities are more finely tuned than those of others and thus that one is morally respectable. What is not obvious to others is painfully obvious to the grandstander. Moreover,