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CHALLENGING HOW WE THINK: DO YOU SECOND GUESS A PERSON'S QUESTION?


[+] serious ballot by contragrain
ACTIVE Jan 21,2007 - Mon Jan 21, 08
Voltaire once said, "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers," and, I agree. Periodically a person's question will "disturb" me if I'm not sure I know why he/she asked it. If you have followed many of my ballots you may have correctly deduced that I often ask questions as a challenge to individual thought PROCESSES rather than the answer itself. It's much like that Math teacher who always wanted us to "show our work." I'm not as concerned with the answers themselves as I am about how we derive them.

Yes, I second guess why a person asked a question. 8
No, if I have doubts, I usually ask the person "why do you ask?" 3
I only do this with people I have identified as "having an agenda." 3
other, see comment 3
No, I just answer the question. 0

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Voted : Yes, I second guess why a person asked a question.
great ballot. much goes through my mind with certain people in how they word a question, as well as to their motive. with others however, i don't. it may have sometihg to do with questioning the motives of some.

by Kev24 on Sun Jan 21, 07 5:08pm [+]

Voted : I only do this with people I have identified as "having an agenda."
There are certain folk that I have identified as such. With them, I sometimes assume small mindedness or pettiness; and, I'm usually right. Sometimes, however, even they surprise me, and I have to admit that perhaps I was presuming too much.
by contragrain on Sun Jan 21, 07 5:18pm [+]

Voted : other, see comment
I remember how Cathexis liked to translate my ballots. I miss him.

by Black_Lava on Sun Jan 21, 07 6:08pm [+]

Voted : other, see comment
I like to ask the questions that other questions dont reach, and I dont like people to assume my motives based on my question.

Subsequently I dont judge others by their questions. Unless they keep asking it again and again in a different form of course.
by Doctordraw on Sun Jan 21, 07 7:14pm [+]

For instance, Fiddles defence of Israel and everything Jewish became so fervent (and seemingly unflinching) at one point, that I DID ask him if he was Jewish.

I read a lot of his questions before I asked mine though.
by Doctordraw on Sun Jan 21, 07 7:15pm [+]

Voted : Yes, I second guess why a person asked a question.
That "goes to motive", as they say on Law & Order
by skylab on Sun Jan 21, 07 7:50pm [+]

Voted : Yes, I second guess why a person asked a question.
But I hate the math teachers who needed to see every step. If you can't do that integral in your head, you shouldn't be teaching me calculus!
by thc2883 on Mon Jan 22, 07 8:27am [+]

Voted : Yes, I second guess why a person asked a question.
Yes, like herzog, who continually digs up negative anecdotes (or makes them up) about Muslims or blacks due to an obsessive need to exercise his bigotry, yet pretends that he's illuminating some higher "neutral" principle.

I guess that's what happens when you give a middle class white bigot a college education: instead of putting on his dad's Klan hat or nazi armband, he attempts to proselytize "neocon" values with its eumpemized racism, misogyny, and ethnic bigotry.
by cranky on Mon Jan 22, 07 9:09am [+]

Voted : Yes, I second guess why a person asked a question.
I second-guess everything in Creation, purely by nature.
by Truthseeker013 on Mon Jan 22, 07 4:19pm [+]

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