On what the 'stop' is doing: my impression is that it's fundamentally arguing from a position of assumed shared values.
If someone were to split me off into two initially-identically-similar copies who then went our separate ways for a time, diverged thereby, but eventually returned to engage in some cooperative venture, and the other me suddenly stared at me intensely and told me to stop in the right sort of forceful tone, I would be likely to stop what I was doing. I share values with myself; if she tells me to stop, in a manner conveying urgency, and doe... (read more)
On what the 'stop' is doing: my impression is that it's fundamentally arguing from a position of assumed shared values.
If someone were to split me off into two initially-identically-similar copies who then went our separate ways for a time, diverged thereby, but eventually returned to engage in some cooperative venture, and the other me suddenly stared at me intensely and told me to stop in the right sort of forceful tone, I would be likely to stop what I was doing. I share values with myself; if she tells me to stop, in a manner conveying urgency, and doe... (read more)