>>>I assume you mean this in the narrowest of definitions, applying to the practice of psychiatry. If taken generally it's utterly false and exceptionally dangerous.
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>It's also the truth- otherwise people wouldn't be jailed for life or executed. Instead they'd be "changed". It also works in a colloquial sense- you can't change Rick unless he wants to change, which he obviously does not. So people who really don't like what he has to say are going to have to come up with their own behavior strategies to resolve the issue.

Are you still speaking very narrowly as in religious conversion? Otherwise, a couple of examples:

- Parents raising children - twins studies illustrate the effects of nurture

- A drunk driver rendering another person a paraplegic in chronic pain

Taken generally it gives people carte blanche to not be concerned about their actions, as they cannot change others.