Why do many folks attack the person asking the question instead of actually answering the question?

Question

Isn't this rather stupid or is it that they just can not read?

Answer 1

Because you have to think and use your brains, to answer a questiion.

Answer 2

often a person reveals his/her position on an issue within the question. the loudest mouths in the country and world for that matter have taught us to when someone doesn't have the same position as you ATTACK people have been elected to office, gotten promotions, sold more of their product got the girl , become famous and so on simply by simply attacking others or attacking others on behalf of the people they want support from (the rushes and seans of the world). now we have no political party to turn to for some help with some of the real threats this nation faces. (illegal and legal immigration, crime against children, war on middle class and so on not to mention that we are past being hit by suitcase sized nukes and are now being set up to struck with long range nukes from Iran and n. Korea) but as long as we attack each other while we work our own personal agendas below the radar , we as a nation can pretend to be great Americans. i better stop here cause this subject can get uglier. all i can say is don't worry about them , you just when in an exchange or debate stick to the issue and i'll do it and maybe a few more will join in and by the time the country collapses there will be 10 or 11 of us -------------recordreeper

Answer 3

Most of the time the question is EXTREMELY biased (e.g. Is President Bush stupid or ignorant?) Are you kidding me? The question is ignorant. When someone is that biased they are only going to pick the biased answer that suits their needs.

So, attack the asker when biased questions like that are posed.

However, if a true bipartisaned question is posed there is no excuse for attacking the asker. That is true ignorance.