It's kind of sad that the Rogerian Argument is not more widely used today. However, the bigger tragedy, is its misuse today. There are countless places that use the Rogerian Argument theory as punishment, which breaks the point of it. A friend of mine, recently, was rather rude to an RA in his dorm, and as punishment, was forced to follow the RA around one night on his rounds, and write a paper saying what he learned about him. In essence this seems like a good idea, however, when you really think about it, it's pointless.
My friend will not have learned anything from this experience, other than RA's do a lot of menial repetitive tasks. He will have not seen anything from the RA's point of view.
This solves nothing about the issue, and only serves to cost both sides time and effort.
There are times when it is appropriate, but punishment is not one of those.
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