Seems like every question is an attempt to score points for the asker's political team. I can't find one serious sincere question on the board. What should we do about it?
2006-12-30 04:20:56 · 14 answers · asked by brickity hussein brack 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I just get tired of people using questions as an excuse to call names. Maybe "loaded" was the wrong term to use. Look at the board now and you see conservatives asking how liberals will mourn Saddam, and liberals asking conservatives when Bush will be executed, and it's plain silly.
2006-12-30 04:30:44 · update #1
Not much you can do about it. You can report the ones that are really horrible, but Yahoo doesn't seem to be able to keep them out of here.
I've often wondered if we shouldn't all band together and refuse to answer baiting questions.
The two points really isn't worth it, but sometimes they are just so much fun to play with.
2006-12-30 04:27:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Way too many. It's hard to not get into the middle of some of them, which is they post them. I guess we all need to make a better effort to ignore them! There are some serious questions, and some thoughtful questions, but even some of those turn into nonsense because the answers start silly reactionary arguments. Too bad. It's too bad we all got so divided. And every question has to be about a party, like no one can believe something that's not "their" party line. I hate that most.
Happy Holidays.
2006-12-30 12:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by Angry Daisy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Both the left and right (even among British participents) seem to think that their sh1t don't stink. Like if someone other than Bush and Blair was in charge there would be peace on earth and everyone would ride flying unicorns to their 4 hour-a-day jobs that they loved anyway, and their children wouldn't be self-centered brats and the baby-boomers would finally no longer plague the land. Does anyone else think it odd that Clinton, Kerry, Gore, and Bush all went to Yale? I don't mean in a illuminati kind of way, just to point out that they aren't very different. As the saying goes in programming-garbage in, garbage out.
2006-12-30 12:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I see it, the political team that feels offended thinks they are in the cross hairs, so they lock and load get ready on the firing line and shoot blindly, hoping to score points. Their not into finding solutions to any problem just to point blame.
2006-12-30 12:40:10 · answer #4 · answered by Charles H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't loaded questions they are statements veiled as questions, with no intent to enter into an intelligent dialog or probably even to read the responses.
Yours is actually a loaded question, not that I ever agree with dstr.
What to do about it? The only viable solution is to round them all up and shoot them I think.
2006-12-30 12:33:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This isn't a 3rd grade debate squad. If you graduated from High School, you should know how to answer a "loaded question" in a way that unloads it.
2006-12-30 12:27:23 · answer #6 · answered by Gemini 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps I'm a bit rosy-eyed, but I think most of that comes from a sincere and close-held ignorance and inability to think critically outside one's own biases.
2006-12-30 12:27:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is an excellent way of learning to communicate ideas and discovering what the other side is thinking.
2006-12-30 12:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by Ransom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So why don't YOU, Mr Brick, ask a serious question ? Hmmmmm!
2006-12-30 12:27:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. In those cases, don't answer them. But it's REALLY hard not to. Sometimes I can't resist.
2006-12-30 12:22:57 · answer #10 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋