Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
Which is my point. The term is being insisted on specifically because it involves a negative utility. A negative utility which is meant to direct others to make a moral judgment towards a character that was not intended within the writing itself.

Aka "virtue signalling".
Only if you're trying to use it as an explicit attempt to display good character, while not holding to the principle yourself. If you think "virtue signalling" means any and all words imbued with a moral judgement in them, such as murder etc., that is simply a misuse of the term.