Lowering another person’s status [....] “lowering someone’s status” is “humiliating them.”
• Contradict them. Tell them they are wrong. Prove it with facts and logic.
There’s your two-sentence summary of why human rationality requires dedicated training.
Um, or more tactful argumentation. Try this: “This is an excellent idea! Let me try to add something else to it...” and slowly lead on to an idea that is actually correct and let them slowly buy into it, and sooner or later they will figure out on their own that then the original one cannot be correct.
There’s your two-sentence summary of why human rationality requires dedicated training.
Um, or more tactful argumentation. Try this: “This is an excellent idea! Let me try to add something else to it...” and slowly lead on to an idea that is actually correct and let them slowly buy into it, and sooner or later they will figure out on their own that then the original one cannot be correct.