do you think that the majority of people really care about the questions they are asking?
594180
From what I've seen, it depends on the categories you are looking at. For examply, I focus a lot on the health categories, and those are probably 90% legitimate questions. Other categories, it seems like 90% is silliness....
333998
It depends on the nature of the question.  If its just a general question, sure, why not?  If its of a personal nature, than no, I would ask people whom I value the opinion of.\n\nI do, however, love posting questions that really have no answer, it's interesting to see the various opinions that come up.  But then again, I am born for arguments or rather intellectual debates.
887744
Not at all. I only answer questions I'm interested in, and ones I feel like I have something to contribute.  Even when I answer sarcastically, or argue unpleasantly, it's still input of who I am.  Good question, though.
911991
I often find myself wondering the same thing. \n\nI guess a lot of people take themselves too seriously.
110335
Compared to the majority of what?
128673
around 25-30 persons and 20% of them will tell you that yes this is a pointless question and the other 20% will tell you to that they dont care and the rest will just simply say they did answer your question...
822126
who cares about more than half the things the media in general talks about.
796922
Some people really do mean it, but I believe the majority of people say it just to be polite. At least their mind is in the right place in trying to be considerate to a person. I'd say 50% of our daily speech is occupied saying to others what we think they want to hear, but I'm just guessing on the percentage.
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No, because to me personally, I find the politicians being on a much lower level of priority than some questioner that has a problem and needs help and can only turn to Yahoo answers to get it. \n\nThis may sound a little gung ho, but I take pride and a feeling of accomplishment when I can help someone see things perhaps a little more clearly and sometimes give them the good feeling when I give them best answer. \n\nDarryl S.
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Yes, I catch your drift.\n\nI ask questions that interest me intellectually or emotionally, but that doesn't mean the question is necessarily ABOUT me. I just want to know what other people think. Some of our Y!Answer friends love giving advice so I suppose they assume it's all personal.
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Maybe apathy.  Maybe defensiveness.  Maybe too many questions.\n\nI tried to answer some guy's question the other day and he got upset that I didn't answer yes or no.\n\nWell, his initial question was not a yes or no question and there were at least 3 questions he was asking at once.  If you ask too many questions, people are generally going to pick either the first or the last thing you said.\n\n(Case in point, read my question here:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlYHfr9enEYxTaAQOGFw.9_sy6IX?qid=1006051030349 and then read some of my answers.  It is a highly specific question.  I think I have asked it in a logical progression.  But it's too much information.  People either didn't read all the way to the bottom or it's just more work than they want to put into an answer.  At least two of them gave me the exact answer I asked them to avoid.  It's too many questions.)\n\nIn his case, I actually did address the two questions at the end of his litany.  But it seemed silly to me to answer those first when they were asked last.  Sometimes the question isn't that great.\n\nAs for answering based on opinion or agenda, we only know first hand what our experiences are and what our interpretations are.  I don't know if we are fully capable of answering anything in a completely unbiased way.  Do people go too far and become unwilling to see anyone else's side?  Sure.  But if they perceive the question as "where do you stand?" of course they're going to tell you.  Or if someone asserts their way is the only way, someone is going to feel compelled to point out all the other ways. \n\nSometimes the questions are not questions at all.  Loaded questions are generally statements with a question mark tacked on at the end.  People who ask them, don't really want to know, but people feel compelled to answer them anyway, because they are generally based on what one group  considers to be untrue.\n\nThe higher the stakes or the contention, the more divided people become.  And this is the division as far as I can see:\n\nAtheist's statement:  "you are stupid if you believe in mythology and any belief in God or anyone higher than ourselves is the equivalent of belief in the Easter bunny," or "Christians are too ignorant to understand science and if they were just smarter, they would see that there is no need for God."\n\nChristians' statement:  "your life would be better if you accepted Jesus as your Savior", or "if you don't see the error of your ways, you are going to hell."\n\nI've not been paying enough attention to the other views (agnostics, pagans, wiccans, Jews, Muslims, etc) to voice their "side."  But you get the idea.\n\nI think part of the problem between Theists and atheists is that if science is wielded by the party who is trying to overthrow God, science necessarily cannot be neutral ground.  Theology is not neutral ground.  \n\nI'm not saying that science is the enemy, but it can't answer everything.  Since it is used by atheists to discredit God, it cannot be considered neutral.\n\nSo were do we meet to talk things out?  What could we decide is neutral?
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I guess we ask questions to ensure that our point of view is validated.\n\nMaybe we don't really care what other people think?  Maybe we already know that our belief is the perfect belief for ourselves and we are only here (on this yahoo site), to prove our point.\n\nObviously....I don't think that...but I don't think that other people think that either.    Some people just insist on forgetting that God made everyone equally.
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does it really matter.
503163
I guess that people assume that if a "relevant" person asks a question, they really want an answer.\nSo here I am answering your question.\nMany people have a lot of information in their heads that seems to be of no good to them.  It just floats around in there taking up space.  They might think that if they give that information to someone else, it will go away and leave them more space to gather more irrelevant information to pass on to someone else in answer to an irrelevant question so they can get it out of their head so they can gather more irrelevant information to float around in their heads until they can pass it on to someone else in answer to an irrelevant question.  Understand?
835804
Not necessarily...\n\nBut most of the people feel it!
503966
Who cares what they think?
1085589
my friend you and i both know that a good percentage of these people don't bother to read the details of questions. they are to busy being self righteous. most can't grasp the concept of reading between the lines of most questions either.