mind readers?...thought control?....
talk is talk and action is action....
how many times have we said things that we had any intention of acting on as in "I could eat a horse"....
“Talk” is no longer cheap. What used to be thought of as “cheap talk” has been made to be very costly by the people who do that kind of talking.
If you were willing why would you need to be persuaded? That is double talk if I ever heard any.