I had a better way of articulating it, but I went with that.
So for the longest time I felt like I shouldn’t give people reasons behind an answer because you can put in the reasons behind it can sway their decisions. Also I know that I had incomplete data set. Humans do lean on each other to think and you can inject what idea and have it spread.
To attempt something more coherent. You can do propaganda when you try to reason. It’s just natural to talk as if they know and just bridge the gaps in their knowledge with any old phrase


Would “give me your wallet, or I shoot you” really be manipulative? It seems more just openly aggressive.
Yeah but the mugger could say “I was just convince him about what he should do with his life. Nothing wrong with that”. I’m being funny. I was thinking more like I tell you about how I beat the shit out of windows users then ask what the best OS. Guess that’s just concepts of vague and open threats