Moral Outrage Vs. Cheap Sarcasm!

Moral Outrage: "is often a function of self-interest, wielded to assuage feelings of personal culpability for societal harms or reinforce (to the self and others) one's own status as a Very Good Person."

Right. Moral Outrage is sort of a self-serving fraud.

Cheap Sarcasm: "Sarcasm “appears to stimulate complex thinking and to attenuate the otherwise negative effects of anger.”

Useful! “You’re distancing yourself, you’re making yourself superior,” Haiman says. “If you’re sincere all the time, you seem naive.”