as well as promoting a community norm of insulting each other and assuming bad faith.
(The community norm should be to assume bad faith as much as is suggested by evidence. The extent to which bad faith is assumed shouldn't be a product of a community norm. Insulting is rarely useful, of course.)
Given the human tendency to get emotionally involved in an argument, I think a rule of "assume bad faith as much as is suggested by evidence" qucikly devolves into "assume bad faith". If you want to argue for a community norm of "assume bad faith as much as suggested by the evidence even after updating on all the evidence that people are really bad at evaluating other people's motives", I wouldn't neccesarily disagree, but in practice, I think that looks a lot like "assume good faith".
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