Mall manager: By congregating in large groups near the stores in our mall, teenagers create an atmosphere in which many adult shoppers feel uncomfortable.
Mall Manager's Conclusion (so)
Merchants should do their utmost to discourage teens from congregating near stores.
Evidence
When teens congregate, it creates an atmosphere in which many adult shoppers feel uncomfortable. As a result adults spend less time shopping. The mall's goal is to prevent a significant loss in overall sales.
Merchant's Response
The teens who congregate near stores spend money in those stores, which represents a big percentage of their overall sales.
Evaluate
Typically, when we're doing Method of Response, the 2nd person does one of these moves: - calls out a dubious assumption - suggests an alternate explanation - highlights bad implications - raises a crucial overlooked consideration
The merchant here is doing both the 3rd and 4th thing. It's a crucial consideration that these congregating teens spend a bunch of money in these stores. After all, the mall manager's stated goal is to prevent a significant loss in overall sales.
(Here's where we get into bad implications ...) If we were to go along with the manager's plan and discourage teens from congregating, that might lead to the teens no longer coming to the mall, and thus no longer spending money at these stores, and thus there would be a significant loss in overall sales.
So the merchant is showing that the manager's plan has implications that would thwart the manager's overall goal of preventing a loss in sales.
Goal
Look for something like "raises an overlooked consideration" or .