The problem isn’t the prominence of bad faith communication. That’s a symptom. Bad faith communicating happens because one party becomes cornered when their sta

The problem isn’t the prominence of bad faith communication. That’s a symptom. Bad faith communicating happens because one party becomes cornered when their standpoint is indefensible, and they know it. Once one side renounces good faith communication, the other sees no point in maintaining communication in good faith, so they throw it away too. So the problem isn’t communicating in bad faith. By the time you’ve gotten there, the battle for good faith communication was already lost. The problem is pride, plain and simple. If people could detach themselves from their views and not make being wrong anything more than that, then we could once again open the door to good faith communication.