Emotions Deny Facts

We react to others' statements in two ways.

1. Detect if the statement is true or not.

2. See if the statement is in good taste or not. Then we respond that their statement hurt us or that they were being judgmental. In this case, we don't look at the veracity of the statement but at whether it was in good taste. By focusing on the "good taste" we take the discussion away from facts to one of emotions.

In the second category, facts are allowed admission only if they're presented in good taste or in a good tone.

Putting it another way, a class of behaviour denies facts based on lack of taste.

Extrapolating this, if we sense that a person is going to say something that puts us in poor light, it's a good tactic to anger them so that they say that they wanted to in a way that lacks taste and then we can use the lack of taste as an excuse to shut out the essence of what they are saying to us. I wonder whether people use this as a strategy.