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| If in doubt... don't attempt (or ask) |
Some may call it a 'rhetoric' question,” but I see 'rhetoric' questions more as 'loaded' questions; and like loaded guns playing with them lightly might not always give the best results.
Let's look at four questions Do I look fat?; Isn't this vase nice? I love it; Would you kill for me?; Do you love me?
The answers are seemingly pre-determined, decorum dictates that the answers are, No, Yes, Yes & Yes, and in that order. However, while the questions may have seemingly evident answers, they are 'loaded' and so the responses should not be taken quiet for granted if there is reason for doubt.
Consider the following questions and their answers:
Q. Do I look fat?
A. No... but it depends, fat for a cow or a cat?
Q. Isn't this vase nice? I love it.
A. Yes... if it were a trophy for poor taste.
Q. Would you kill for me?
A. Yes... but better if you would die for me.
Q. Do you love me?
A. … er
The obvious answer should of course be a 'Yes' but according to a new report that I cam across over the internet recently was that when a Pennsylvania woman complained that her songwriter boyfriend had never written a song about her, he choked her and hit her in the face.
Apparently she complained to her boyfriend that while he had written songs about other women, he had never written about her.
So he hit her in the face.
The boyfriend has since been charged with simple assault (and is probably single again). He is currently free on bond awaiting a preliminary hearing, which is scheduled for July 25.
What did I read into this (or what should you read into it)? Well it is the basis to a Talatism truth that I discovered years ago. Don't ask if you really don't want an answer... and don't ask, more so, if in doubt. Some questions, if you have to ask, you already have the answers to as well.
Beware, a rhetoric question may often have too rhetoric an answer.
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