LPT – While you’re making an attempt to persuade somebody of one thing, be sure to ask them “If I demonstrated X, would that persuade you?”
Not a ton of arguments occur in good religion.
Save your self a while and power by asking this straightforward query earlier than launching into your reasoning for holding a sure place. As an example you are speaking to somebody, and suggest frequent sense gun regulation to scale back the variety of mass shootings, they are saying “nicely laws do not scale back the variety of mass shootings” and also you supply to point out them that it does, if the particular person says “No, even in the event you confirmed me that background checks and prohibitions on gross sales towards sure courses of weapons would cut back deaths, I nonetheless wouldn’t help placing these measures in place” – then you recognize you are both
1. not taking the proper strategy to be convincing, or, extra doubtless
2. not chatting with somebody who is on the market to be satisfied
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Sounds like a salesman approach
Better to ask, “what would it take to convince you to reconsider?”