• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
        15·
        9 months ago

        Psst. That’s the joke.

        I quickly responded to your question with no, but the only people who would do that are people who really want to answer questions.

        In any case, I think you’re correct enough for this joke. At least some people really want to answer questions, and I have a questioning 5 yo.

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
          21·
          9 months ago

          There IS an extent to which this seems true for everyone, tho… Like, we were all “parented” in some way and that almost always involves answering and learning to defend oneself…

            • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              9 months ago

              So everyone with parents/adult figures (almost everyone except wolf-children) they had to answer to, instilled a low-key compulsion to answer questions or any sentence with that lift at the end indicating questioning. Cuz you were in trouble if you didn’t. Childen have no 5th amendment aha

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    Yes. Variously called an occupational habit or a lowkey OCD one (though you definitely won’t hear me say that), questions are akin to a verbal vacuum (and not ironic at all I of all people give this answer, oh no).

  • sosodev@lemmy.world
    61·
    9 months ago

    All humans? No. There are plenty of people who couldn’t care less what you want to know.

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
          21·
          9 months ago

          But I feel like even if they feel in some conflicted sense, contrarily, there’s still an impulse to respond

          Edit: i feel like this might be the basis behind when lawyers treat witnesses as hostile: make a bunch of claims that can be variably supported/assessed and you can get somewhat closer in the assurance that the witness at issue is going to have some feelings about the matter at hand

          • sosodev@lemmy.world
            4·
            9 months ago

            I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. It seems like what you’re saying doesn’t follow the conversation logically. I think that’s why the other commenter asked if you’re ok.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      11·
      9 months ago

      Yup. I work at a huge home improvement store and people think I know the details on every product!

      I’ve just started pulling out my phone to ask chatgpt for lots of these questions.

      “What kind of spackle should I use on the surface of the moon?”

      “Sorry sir we have 50,000 products in this store. I’m gonna ask GPT-4”

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    12·
    9 months ago

    I think it is trained into us in school where kids are given lots of praise and recognition for providing answers, and kids who stop to think are laughed at.

    Also in our media, someone who knows what they’re doing is presented as confident and quick in their responses. We don’t have any images of people saying “Well I’m not sure” and then later being the heroes.

    Wisdom is always portrayed as immediately knowing exactly what to do.

    I’m hoping that with all the negatives, at least WW3 will force our culture to adopt a more workable model of decision making given our decisions will now be life or death decisions.