Comment on When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself?

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I suppose I do have things to hide, but I don’t make an active attempt to try to hide anything I do or have.

  As a side note, this is what I would consider a “bad faith question.” This is a question that you are asking as an attempt to hit me with some “gotcha” moment. If I answer “No,” then you say I am being defensive. If I say “Yes,” then you say I am lying. I may be dumb but I wasn’t born yesterday.

  You don’t actually want to know what things I have to hide if I had any, and you likely don’t care. A person would respect other’s privacy and not ask out of that principle anyways, even if you were curious.

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  • spiderwort@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or maybe it’s an example of a “gotcha question”, asked to introduce the subject of such. Because there is ambiguity there. Or maybe I’m feeling my way along and checking to see where your answers switch from “responsive” to “defensive”.

    Some people straightman it to the death, so the line is hard to find. Which could be called defensive from the start.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly, this just sounds like you are a pseudointellectual that thinks you’re much more intelligent than you actually are. I have had conversations with people that respond similarly to you, and this conversation has gone far enough for me to recognize that it will be a waste of my time. I don’t care what you do with your time, but I won’t allow you to waste more of mine than you already have.

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      • spiderwort@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shields up Mr Sulu

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      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re a three day old account that’s clearly just here to troll. They’ll evade any actual discussion… so yeah - probably best to not waste any of your time.

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  • spiderwort@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Do you have anything to hide” is just crass. I wouldn’t have replied to it.

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