I suspect it’s less that people’s self-models are sacred than that self-model-accuracy is closely tied to credibility. In adversarial contexts credibility arguments are conversation-stopping. But they can be totally fine in non-adversarial contexts where all parties involved are confident that none of the involved parties want to permanently undermine their credibility.
I suspect it’s less that people’s self-models are sacred than that self-model-accuracy is closely tied to credibility. In adversarial contexts credibility arguments are conversation-stopping. But they can be totally fine in non-adversarial contexts where all parties involved are confident that none of the involved parties want to permanently undermine their credibility.