I’d contend that a post can be “in good faith” in the sense of being a sincere attempt to communicate your actual beliefs and your actual reasons for them, while nonetheless containing harmful patterns such as logical fallacies, misleading rhetorical tricks, excessive verbosity, and low effort to understand your conversational partner. Accusing someone of perpetuating harmful dynamics doesn’t necessarily imply bad faith.
In fact, I see this distinction as being central to the OP. Duncan talks about how his brain does bad things on autopilot when his focus slips, and he wants to be called on them so that he can get better at avoiding them.
I’d contend that a post can be “in good faith” in the sense of being a sincere attempt to communicate your actual beliefs and your actual reasons for them, while nonetheless containing harmful patterns such as logical fallacies, misleading rhetorical tricks, excessive verbosity, and low effort to understand your conversational partner. Accusing someone of perpetuating harmful dynamics doesn’t necessarily imply bad faith.
In fact, I see this distinction as being central to the OP. Duncan talks about how his brain does bad things on autopilot when his focus slips, and he wants to be called on them so that he can get better at avoiding them.