How to minimize the hurt of the person when you reject him/her?

A lot of people think it can reduce the hurt to the person by give them some reasons.

Do you think it does work?

Logically, it's not work because that person will think you reject him/her is because of the ,reasons so they will try to overcome the reasons you do give them.

Due to rule of "No Sacrifice No Value", this might be made the feeling toward you become more strong.

Actually we can no need to figure the way to reject the persons who like us because they like us is non of our business as long as they don't disturb our life.

If you think this will bring you some stress, maybe you can try this way:

Tell the person the truth with the rule by him. For example, when the person has told you he/she like you, you might ask him/her "How do you know you like me?". If he/she answer because he/she has the feeling with you. Then you can say " Sorry then because I don't have the feeling with you and I hope our friendship will not break because of this."

There are a lot ways but this is one of the simple, fast and useful way.