The assumption of good faith is what allows a group to get stronger when its members debate.
- The assumption of good faith is what allows a group to get stronger when its members debate.
- If you don't have it, then debate tears the group apart.
- Every disagreement is taken as more evidence of what the other member is fundamentally missing.
- If you do have it, then debate makes you stronger.
- Every disagreement is taken as something the other person sees that you don't yet, but could.
- The assumption of good faith is ultimately an assumption that the other members also care about the same abstract ends for the group that you do.
- Low-trust societies don't have this, and it tears them apart.