but what if you believe the other individual is oblivious to/blind to/in denial of/ignorant of/unaware of the actual motivations? (so you're a mind reader? well, i guess)
As to the original point, whether it's acceptable to question motivations, I find the concept attractive, but in practice I've found it fairly useless. Perhaps you shouldn't "argue" the other person's motivations, as you're unlikely to get anywhere unless you are dealing with a legitimately well-intentioned person who is aware of his/her own educational (as opposed to intellectual) limitations, and is eager for such a mind-expanding experience (probably rare. perhaps extremely rare. perhaps not), so in that sense it may make sense to "not question motivations".
But it does seem like a necessary part of the calculation as to which conversations are worth having.
Does this imply that such decisions would necessarily be "accurate" for a given individual? Can of worms opened. Depends what is is.
Navel gazed?
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