Reminds me of what a therapist friend says about counseling, how you have to give a client a safe environment before you do any work. Also seems related to the

Reminds me of what a therapist friend says about counseling, how you have to give a client a safe environment before you do any work. Also seems related to the point linked from HN recently - ask someone a moral question, let them answer, and then somehow convince them they gave an opposite answer (they did this by secretly altering the paper questionnaire they filled out, and showing the forged answer to the subject) - the person will then often defend the answer they apparently gave, rather than the answer they really gave. I think it's a good question. My best theory so far is to just lay out the reasoning to the person in a very accessible way, so they can accept it on their own timetable.