If you start out with a supportive statement first, they start off thinking you are on their side and they are off balance from the beginning. The question then pops their emotional appeal bubble and forces them into logical thinking... where they tend to not be able to come with an answer to a very relevant question. The object is to cause them to think through their stand rather then offend or confront them tho, so just keep focused on your concern for the children and they'll never have a chance to turn it back to emotions. Without the emotions that they depend on mixed in, they lose their case.
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Date: 2008-07-15 04:09 pm (UTC)