From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri May 14 1999 - 08:33:34 MDT
david_musick@juno.com writes:
> provoking humans to anger
> can sometimes make it
> easier for them
> to be honest with you
True, although it also introduces some extra noise in the
communication since they will try to hurt you by exaggerating bad
points or even making them up. Moderation is best, even when angering
people.
Myself, I try to avoid angering people because they lose their ability
to think flexibly when angry. In many ways making people angry is a
kind of coercion of their thinking (even if it is sometimes necessary
to prevent them coercing you). Of course, this could be just a
rationalization for me being a wussy conflict-aversive Swede :-)
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