I think the point is to not criticize in bad faith.

You are meant to use common sense and be the judge of what is and is not a bad faith criticism or arguement.

Maybe we don't know what the strongest is, but a lower bound is that Animats wasn't justifying every conceivably related atrocity.

The real irony is dang assuming that anonuser wasn't responding to the "strongest plausible interpretation" is not the "strongest plausible interpretation" of anonuser's comment.