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0 pointskordless10y ago0 comments

When you ask questions, especially leading ones, it causes a good deal of confusion around the topic at hand. The reasons behind this are complex, but they have something to do with our tendency to double bind each other.

Someone has the right to say why something is "disqualified" for them, even if it is devoid of context. What is awesome here is that the leading expert for this topic is replying directly to the negative (empty) opinion and actually presents a (rich) alternate opinion.

How does you asking unanswerable questions contribute to resolving the conversation to something we can all learn from?

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GFK_of_xmaspast10y ago

So in other words "questions are a burden and answers are a prison for oneself".

kordlessOP10y ago

Regardless of their nature, questions are definitely a burden. However, I think the way some questions are put can cause a disproportionate amount of burden when they contain hidden meanings or agendas.

If someone is having issues being direct and use techniques to "hide" how they feel about something in a question, they effectively load the question with intent. I think sometimes those questions can be viral in nature, causing angry memes like what they mention in "This Video Will Make You Angry": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

Logic would dictate that we should learn to avoid questions which cause excessive amounts of processing with little return in their answers. A simple way to filter on these is to ask if the question conflicts itself when answered in a given way.

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