Manipulation and the Spider's web

[vervain_]

Can you be manipulated if you know that you are so being at the time you take the decision to follow a given course of action?

Comments

[kingandy]

That depends entirely on how good at manipulation the manipulator is.

Aaand my paranoia kicks in big time.

[coolforkatz]

Yes as long as it is a manipulation I want :P

[clawbeast]

Surely that depends if the situation allows any alternative course of action? If you have arrived at a situation where you have no practical alternative course of action, then yes.

[coolforkatz]

There is always an alternative course of action no matter how far down a path you have gone. You might not like the alternatives but they are there.

[sea_cucumber]

If the thing you are being manipulated to do is the same as what you would be doing anyway, then it doesn't really matter! :)

[raphaelcentauri]

Joining kingandy on the paranoia train.

I would argue "yes", unless you consciously knew you wanted it beforehand; someone is convincing you to do something, whether or not it actually *is* a good idea, you are being "manipulated" in some way. This is particularly valid if you were in any form of doubt before.

[coolforkatz]

In most decisions you don't care one way or another so allowing someone else to convince you is an easy solution and you get thier thanks too.

[vervain_]

No need to be paranoid, this is the end of a drunken conversation when such a thought occurred to me and i wanted to pop it down so I could hear my friends views on it.