How Do You Tell if You're Not Lying?

If you have an opinion that you can't express in public, that's a problem. He's afraid of being cancelled. But i think the pro as that they actually can't say their actual opinion because it would be, it would sound disgusting, even to themselves when they said it out loud. How do yu explain that? Well, the explanation i would give is that one of us is experiencing cognitive dissonance. And then how do you tell which one it is? Do you remember my trick for doing that? What's the trick for seeing who has the cognitive distance? The trick is is, if you can take the other side of the argument and give a full throated argument