Are there religious/spiritual reasons that some people don't take the time to read questions before answering?

I've noticed that people frequently answer questions without actually reading them. Does anybody know why that is? It seems to happen most frequently in R&S.

As an example, I frequently see questions of the form "Why do some members of religious group <A> perform action [Z]?"

<A> and [Z] are stand-ins for groups and actions respectively, if that wasn't clear. I'm using letters to avoid angry responses from people who will get mad if my examples use the groups to which they belong.

The answers to these questions are often things like
"Not all <A>'s do [Z]"
"Why do you hate people in <B>?" (where <B> is completely irrelevant)
"Yeah, well <C> is worse than <A> because they do [X]"

Do people not care to read the questions or is it that they read the questions but choose to answer a different one?

2008-03-19T13:47:30Z

Wow... I totally set myself up for most of these answers without realizing it. =)

Ska-Kitteh Übersetzung2008-03-19T13:39:46Z

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I think that there are many <A>holes that <B>itch way too much and am sure that they really don't give a <C>rap about most questions but think that they're <D>amned smart about pretty much <E>verything.

Try to not get too upset about it, o'great one.

Lucky Bunny2008-03-19T14:15:46Z

Yes. It's called Divine Laziness, and Ignorant Design.

Ignorant Design comes into it when people answer a completely different question to what was asked, or choose to rant instead of answering. A lovely example I once had was a cut'n'paste that filled the page, but did not answer the question at all.
I've also had a few people who completely ignore the question itself, and just say stuff like 'I agree'. Okay, you agree. Fair enough, now would you like to tell me your answer at any time?

Divine Laziness is the other great religious reason for not reading. It takes the form of a question format (I'll steal your example):

Q: Why don't Xs ever seem to tolerate Ys?

QD: I don't personally think there's many Xs who dislike Ys, it's just a small minority who tend to be extremely rude and disgusting in their attitudes. A case of the noisiest few, so to speak. What's your opinion on this?

A: We're not ALL like that!!! Stop being so judgemental!!

ummmm.....READ IT NEXT TIME!!!!

lol.

((((hugs))))

Recreant- father of fairies2008-03-19T13:34:57Z

Nope, no real spiritual reason. Sometimes I just find it humorous to answer the question 'as seen' without the additional details.

Anonymous2008-03-19T13:39:59Z

I am often guilty of that.

I go by the header question, unless it is really interesting.

I admit, im sorry, but even this question i didn't fully read ( i did read like half, something about breaking up with alia)

bad tim2008-03-19T15:00:58Z

i was catching [z]'s while reading your lengthy details. nothing personal, it's been a long day.




oh, and people in polls and surveys are worse because they don't cut and paste.

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