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After awhile, do you stop answering questions that have biased questioner's?
Quite frequently will you see a question pop up saying ATHEISTS: blah blah blah moral compass blah? or CHRISTIANS: blah blah blah spaghetti monster blah blah? Many of these seem to be always asked by the same damn people, but they always pick the person who has the same beliefs as themselves.
Do you feel tempted to just put at the bottom of your answer, in sources, the belief that is in unison with the person asking?
Are you kidding me kitty scooper pooper? It's about 50:50 mate, and frankly I hope you get thumbed down for sticking your head out too far.
Cause downy thumbs are scary.
19 Answers
- JimLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
>Everyone is "biased," regardless. This is so, because, if nothing else, we each think of ourselves FIRST and so we are all biased in our own favor. After that layer of self-protectionism is covered, we acquire other biases - another word for bias is "preference." The word "bias" has been inappropriately absconded with to mean bigotry. Bias is not bad or wrong any more than any other form of preference. If I say, I want to sit THERE in a restaurant rather then HERE, I am being biased. Preferring a window seat on an airplane trip is not being bigoted, it is just a simple preference. So, let's just be clear about what bias means.
I am certain that every question that is posed, has some bias, in part, in the mind of the writer. The writer is already pre-disposed to certain responses which they favor...others, they are against or they do not care about. Having a preference for one type of response is not being bigoted. It merely means, you have an OPINION. Ok, well, opinions are another thing we all have. It doesn't make me a bad person that I have a bias, a preference for God and that I have certain closely held beliefs about God which are my own opinions - my opinions are the culmination of what others have taught me and what I have arrived at on my own. This doesn't make me a bad person, it makes me like everyone else.
So when I respond to a question, I don't respond with any particular expectations like the questioner has - I just speak my Truth as plainly as I can, as logically and simply and as forthrightly as I can and if the questioner doesn't like my response - ok, they don't like it. So what? My feelings aren't hurt. It doesn't change how I think or what I believe - it means, someone else's biases do not meet mine.
I cannot expect the WHOLE world to agree with me. And that includes askers of questions.
- 9 years ago
I answer sarcastically hoping they eventually caitch on to how they act... I point out any errors they make though. Ive been blocked by a lot of those users anyways. Ive been blocked by both christians and atheists, and muslims and a buddhist even though i never said anything bad about buddhism the guys just a wierdo.
- gusellaLv 45 years ago
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- 9 years ago
Yes to be honest. I often go on here and look at a bunch of question but never answer them because it seems pointless.
Source(s): atheist - ?Lv 59 years ago
Nah I continue answering. They'll stop eventually. Just takes a little time. I always put the same source though.
Source(s): I am a Christian. :) - 9 years ago
I just skip the question and go down the list til I find an honest inquiry (maybe 10% of the lot).
- 9 years ago
Yes you do get tired, that's why a wise person who doesn't want to waste his/her time trying to speak their mind to a deaf crowd of bias people will not answer their question.
- 9 years ago
Depends on my mood. Usually, if it's an anti-gay activist questioner trying to recruit others into the immoral anti-gay lifestyle, I respond, though.
- Anonymous9 years ago
depends.
i fancy answering quran and haram related questions in accordance to islam.. yet hardly ever get selected as a best answer. i probably put way too few inshallah and bismillah into my answers.
- yahoo userLv 49 years ago
a majority of people here don't have a life. the rest are answering questions to their own discretion because intelligent questions provoke intelligent answers. i like yours though.