Which is the superior person? The one with a question, or the one with an answer?

Question

Those of you saying neither:

Quit arguing the question and use your brain. Any answer that still says 'neither' when I pick a best answer will be reported for point-gaming as being not an answer.

Answer 1

It is a thought provoking question, but it doesn't have any definite concrete answer. To ask who is superior right now, you or me, I would not know, the question is too generalized. If perhaps the superiority goes to the person who whether the question is too hard to answer or the answer is amazing, then perhaps we have tied.

Answer 2

In my opinion, Dearest, it depends on what the Question is. You can have a perfectly obvious question such as "what breed of chicken is that?" or an unanswerable question such as "why?". You can't have an Answer without a Question preceeding it (and if you do, please give me tomorrow's Lotto numbers, I have a few bills I need to pay....*whiskery otter grin*)
You can have rather crappy Questions, such as the questions asked again and again and again ad nauseum. Work in any public museum, any historical park or such place and you'll soon get the gist of "those" sort of questions; and the same goes for Answers, for example : "because I said so that's why".
I would still mostly stay on the side of the Question for the reason of you can't have an answer without a question (unless perhaps you're playing Jeparody and I don't see Alex Trebeck anywheres near here)

Answer 3

God is the most superior person, and He is omniscient, so the one with an answer must be superior to the one with a question.

PS: You don't make the rules here. Yahoo!Answers does. You can report anyone for any reason you like, but then we can do the same, can't we? I'm sure that will solve everything, huh?

Answer 4

Question: -5 points
Answer: 2 points

You do the math. Yahoo feels that questions are to be punished. It's called Yahoo!Answers, not Yahoo!Q&A or anything so practical. Yahoo clearly had no need for questions.

A great question inspires thought. A great answer inspires, but does not require, questions. All in all, I'm more likely to go, "Oooh!", for a question. I'll buck Yahoo and say the question.

Answer 5

To me the one who can do both. A superior person recognizes that they do not have the answer to every question but can take a stab at it anyway and they also can recognize that they need help once in awhile in asking a question.

Answer 6

Neither is superior. The superior position would be the person who is asking the questions. Have you ever heard the expression, "you better have some answers" in a bossy way. But you haven't heard, "you better have some questions" in a bossy way.

Answer 7

Why does one have to be superior to the other? They are symbiotic. Both are dependent on the other. Without a Question, you can not have an Answer. Without the Answer, the Question is incomplete.

Answer 8

It depends on if I'm asking a question or giving an answer. If I'm asking a question then I am superior. If I am giving an answer then I am superior.

Answer 9

the one with the question because he recognizes he doesn't know but the one with the answers "puts himself" as the superior by answering the question thinking he knows the answer, in which he could be wrong, and makes him worst than the one who doesn't know, because the one who doesn't know recognizes he's ignorant and isn't saying he knows like the one that could be wrong. :D

Answer 10

Neither. For one day their positions may be reversed. One should never be so vain as to think they have all the answers nor so vain that they think they are unworthy to know an answer.