enacting conflict in the course of discussing conflict
… seems to be exactly why it’s so difficult to discuss a conflict theory with someone already convinced that it’s true – any discussion is necessarily an attack in that conflict as it in effect presupposes that it might be false.
But that also makes me think that maybe the best rhetorical counter to someone enacting a conflict is to explicitly claim that one’s unconvinced of the truth of the corresponding conflict theory or to explicitly claim that one’s decoupling the current discussion from a (or any) conflict theory.
… seems to be exactly why it’s so difficult to discuss a conflict theory with someone already convinced that it’s true – any discussion is necessarily an attack in that conflict as it in effect presupposes that it might be false.
But that also makes me think that maybe the best rhetorical counter to someone enacting a conflict is to explicitly claim that one’s unconvinced of the truth of the corresponding conflict theory or to explicitly claim that one’s decoupling the current discussion from a (or any) conflict theory.