Quote: I think it's really important to have conversations about what topics are on/ off the table before you engage, though.
Concerns must be addressed. Otherwise they will linger and catch up. The longer a situation drags out the more harm/damage it can cause to both people involved (or more if that's a factor). This is important to keep in mind with both serious events and when playing together. In fact, people that do interrogation (the real kind) will even state that. That it's in the interest of the patients safety and sanity to get fast results. Just because someone tries to shut a topic down doesn't mean it's the safest course of action.
Wherever you leave someone with their ignorance and assumptions, that can go a varied number of ways depending on the situation. But if you at least stress that THEY'RE deciding what they're doing then it's on their head if nothing else. Buuuut... If you leave ignorance and assumptions unattended then do they make a clear and well informed choice? I'd have to say no.
Actions betray words when people are challenged. If someone tells me "No go" I state "What's the context with me?" At that point it's kind of impossible to say you have a clear and concious choice on the matter. Because it's blind. If you're blind to me then I need to know your context to make a decision one way or the other.
Any time I phrase things in that way people want to know. On the spot. Because if they don't know then where's the (well informed and clear) choice?
Technical details can come after. But it all starts with "What do you say no too when you're don't even know?" It's quite the interesting situation. Because if they know they don't know, suddenly they want to know. They want to think and use their brain even if they showed every indication they didn't want too beforehand.
There's probably some sort of defintion for that. If there is I can't think of it. I think it's peoples desire for answers that compels them to find out in the interest of honesty and choice. That's my theory anyway. Let me know what you think of the matter.