If Ben says: “I desire X, and I could get that by doing less faction stuff”, that implies that he is doing faction stuff. But you’re taking it as implying that he isn’t.
The only way I could understand your criticism is as making a revealed-preference critique, where Ben is expressing a preference for doing non-faction stuff but is still doing faction stuff. That doesn’t seem like a strong critique, though, since doing less faction stuff is somewhat difficult, and noticing the problem is the first step to fixing it.
If Ben says: “I desire X, and I could get that by doing less faction stuff”, that implies that he is doing faction stuff. But you’re taking it as implying that he isn’t.
The only way I could understand your criticism is as making a revealed-preference critique, where Ben is expressing a preference for doing non-faction stuff but is still doing faction stuff. That doesn’t seem like a strong critique, though, since doing less faction stuff is somewhat difficult, and noticing the problem is the first step to fixing it.