> It's either a cheap, dishonest rhetorical trick ... It's mostly that. It appears in sales interactions as a kind of lazy objection handling as well, pretend

> It's either a cheap, dishonest rhetorical trick ... It's mostly that. It appears in sales interactions as a kind of lazy objection handling as well, pretend you don't understand someone's concern and hope you embarrass them into dropping it. In an online discussion you can just ignore it though, there's no point in engaging with someone who's not discussing in good faith.