AdeleneDawner comments on Logical Rudeness - Less Wrong
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I parse it as "Many people avoid changing their minds by changing the subject as a way of avoiding thinking about the point that should cause them to do so."
Just... a lot of failure involves changing the subject at the right (wrong) time. It's most noticeable as a repeated rhetorical event, but I'm sure it happens in silent thought all the time.