[exe34]

could you give an example? my approach is usually something like "I've come up with three options here, I think the first two are equally good, I'm mentioning the third for completeness, but I don't think we should do it because...."

[fragmede]

Time is limited, why waste time talking about a third when you've already decided against it?

[ovao]

Who’s to say he’s necessarily right? The third approach (or pieces from it) could actually be the right one, even if he doesn’t know it.

[fragmede]

You have a point, but that's also where you come off as indecisive. Since the question was explicitly about that that, presenting 3 options, one of which you have reasons against, when we're all busy and meeting time is constrained, is, in the abstract, a waste of everybody's time. If later on, someone comes up with objections; options A won't work because problem X, option B has issues Y and Z, then sure, bring up option C, which addresses X and Y but has other issues, for further debate, but unless that happens, that's time wasted. imo.

This does hinge on you knowing what you're talking about, and rejecting option C for unbiased reasonable logical reasons you're sure about.