What's interesting about that essay is its appeal to character or "virtue ethics", I think. I've tried to address this a few times in past threads, especially when concepts like "bad faith" arise. Rittenhouse' crying looked precisely like bad faith to me. I get accused of it a lot because I enjoy playing roles and believe playing roles (like Devil's Advocate) facilitates healthy reasoning. (E.g. EricC's accusation of illiberalism on my part when condemning the anti-masker's punching of the doctor.)
So, I'd argue against you completely. This essay is talking about how to detect and operate in the presence of bad faith. And, to be clear, the bad faith actor doesn't necessarily *know* that they're acting in bad faith. In fact, it's a more canonical case of bad faith if the actor has simply habituated to it. Rittenhouse's crying on the stand and Kavanaugh's crying in his confirmation hearings both seem to me to be statements about their *character*. That means whatever ways we have/develop to detect bad faith can be made reflective ... kinda like the Reddit forum "Am I the Asshole?" 8^D I doubt one's oxytocin-laced skepticism over such acting is completely arbitrary ... or even a preference at all. On 1/13/22 14:33, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Well, now that I've taken one extreme position, let me take the other extreme position! This essay reflects, IMO, an arbitrary preference for social affinities of a certain sort, and it is only one sort of valid class of relationships. Relationships that have benefits, but also costs. It's not just overbearing on how men should be, but also on how women should be. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/toxic-masculinity.html
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