I don’t think it’s inherently contradictory to apply social pressure while thinking that resisting social pressure is a virtue.
One possible reason for thinking that resisting social pressure is a virtue is if you think social pressure is generically bad, in which case applying it does indeed seem hypocritical. But it seems like there could be other reasons for considering that virtuous.
Perhaps you think that resisting social pressure shows personal strength and conviction, and that applying social pressure helps people to train their strength and conviction.
Or perhaps you think the world is made of a mixture of naturally-good people who can resist social pressure and naturally-bad people who can’t, and given that the bad people exist it’s pragmatically important to ensure that net social pressure points in a prosocial direction.
(In case it changes how you interpret my reasoning: I chose not to vote in the virtue poll.)
I don’t think it’s inherently contradictory to apply social pressure while thinking that resisting social pressure is a virtue.
One possible reason for thinking that resisting social pressure is a virtue is if you think social pressure is generically bad, in which case applying it does indeed seem hypocritical. But it seems like there could be other reasons for considering that virtuous.
Perhaps you think that resisting social pressure shows personal strength and conviction, and that applying social pressure helps people to train their strength and conviction.
Or perhaps you think the world is made of a mixture of naturally-good people who can resist social pressure and naturally-bad people who can’t, and given that the bad people exist it’s pragmatically important to ensure that net social pressure points in a prosocial direction.
(In case it changes how you interpret my reasoning: I chose not to vote in the virtue poll.)