I think people who live their lives entirely in bad faith rising to the top of any sort of hierarchy for the sole purpose of self enrichment is just historically par for the courseIt ' s only par for the course when it ' s encourage when good faith is encouraged , good faith is par for the course . What matters is ourselves as actors , and I can promise you that every bad faith actor who justifies their actions circularly which is to say they justify bad faith by saying ' i ' m acting in bad faith because everyone always acts in bad faith ' is always going to choose to act in bad faith , and feel justified . pretending that this isn ' t the caseI ' m not pretending anything , I don ' t think you ' re right that it ' s just ' the case ', and frankly I think it ' s your fear that people will act in bad faith towards you in particular that ' s preventing you from acting in good faith towards anyone else . I don ' t think this is actually a hard thing to do , and I don ' t think you ' ve done enough to prove that people aren ' t capable , interested , or even as much as that they won ' t do this regularily I ' d suggest they would , and have , when encouraged . pretending that this isn ' t the case is just the most recent trend of rhetoric to keep the masses downNo , bad faith is how you keep the masses down . What are you talking about ?