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I encountered the phrase in a slice-of-life manga:

```

    無理に聞いても 言わせてもね
    
```

The first half I can understand, roughly "even if you force them to say it",
but the second part 言わせてもね does not make sense to me and dictionary (like
Jisho) did not help. Contextually it would mean, I guess, that "even if you
(try to) force them to say it, they won't say it anyway". Is this right?

This is the snapshot: [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SbqmT.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SbqmT.jpg)

The context is basically that Koizumi telling a complicated story about her
family to Shino, who has a complicated family issues of her own (and Shino
thought she managed to move a bit towards resolving it).
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Meaning of 無理に聞いても 言わせてもね
In this context, the second phrase is just a loose self-restatement.

> まあ 無理に聞いても 言わせてもね  
>  lit. "Well, even if (I) ask (her) forcefully... even if (I) make (her) say
> (forcefully), don't I"  
>  _Well, no use extracting it... forcing her to say it..._

Ending a sentence with Vても usually implies "V doesn't help" or "V makes no
good".
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