Yeah culturally we would need people to accept the answer in the post, but in practice you quickly see someone pivot to then explaining why their opinion is what you should hold because the following bias information they use.
That will happen by those who are greedy, but also those who want to help people.
When someone honestly believes that switching to EVs would have somehow caused chaos, then telling someone not to buy an EV wasn't necessarily them trying to hurt things, they believe they are doing the right thing.