I would suggst that you may be:

> **Playing the Devil’s Advocate**

See the following definition and example from the [online Oxford English Dictionary](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/devil's_advocate):

> **devil's advocate**

> A person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke
> debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments. 

>*‘the
> interviewer will need to play devil's advocate, to put the other
> side's case forward’*