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by naasking
816 days ago
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> This is similar to how one of the best ways to debunk toxic beliefs with honest people is simply through openly asking them to play out the consequences and walking through the impact of stuff that sounds good without much thought. Actually, one of the best ways is pretending to be more extreme than them. Agree with them on everything, which is disarming, but then take it a step or two even further. Then they're like, "now hang on, what about X and Y" trying to convince you to be more reasonable, and pretty soon they start seeing the holes and backtrack to a more reasonable position. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1407055111 |
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