Beating a Dead Horse

It's an ugly metaphor, isn't it? But it does describe the concept very well. And I do this in real life. A lot. Some of it is just me working out my thoughts in my head as I speak and so I repeat stuff when I go back to where I knew I was on solid logical footing and rethink, but that's not all of it. It's not even most of it.

I know why I do it. I've always known why I do it. It's an attempt to get people who do not value me or what I say, who will not just believe me when I say something, to do so anyway based on logic and reason. I've always hoped that if perhaps I can just show the logic of my argument that would carry the day, even if the person to whom I am speaking doesn't care about just doing it because I asked him/her to do so since there is no respect there. It's a hope that *this* time, my concerns, knowledge and feelings won't be simply dismissed and ignored.

It never works. I'm going to stop doing it.