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What does "persuading in bad faith" mean? Is this bad faith in the techniques of the persuasion, or that the persuasion is being used in a malicious way? For
by wisty 5y ago
What does "persuading in bad faith" mean?
Is this bad faith in the techniques of the persuasion, or that the persuasion is being used in a malicious way?
For example, if I say something misleading (or omit a few facts) to encourage people to vote for an objectively good candidate, is that bad faith? The persuasion is using a dark pattern, but I've got good intentions.
On the other hand, maybe I have some objectively bad belief, and I openly and candidly try to persuade people of it. Is that bad faith?
I'd lean towards the former being "bad faith". I believe that free and candid discussion is the best mechanism to move society forward, and I think that more progress would be great. But there are people who would disagree, because it took a lot of work to get our society to its current state, and they want to prioritise conserving what we've already got.
- mistermann 5y agoI think people who use the term bad faith (and similar phrases) use it with the best of intentions, but the ambiguous nature of it combined with the imprecise way most people speak and think results in it causing more problems not less.
- d110af5ccf 5y agoYes, your first example is correct (by definition). Bad faith is misrepresenting your motivations or the relevant facts in some way, including by omission. > But there are people who would disagree, because <reasons> That is an example of mental gymnastics to avoid classifying the thing they want to do as bad in their own view. They want to do something but they don't want to think of themselves as behaving in bad faith because they're a good person doing the right thing.