So, he would absolutely not stop them from thinking about these things.
Everyone would clearly know that preventing others from doing what they want to do is offensive.
Because preventing the other party from doing what they want means standing on the opposite side of them.
This is not something someone who wants to win over people's hearts would do.
However, he wants to win people's hearts on one hand and achieve his own aim on the other.
Therefore, he naturally needs to use a fairly pleasing, but very useful means.
That is to go along with other people's line of thought and keep questioning them.
Never, at the beginning, put one's status and position completely at odds with the others.
Because such action is absolutely foolish; to not be inclusive means to naturally be rejected by people.
So even if you win the argument with the other party, it wouldn't mean anything.
But being inclusive is the key to truly winning!