What's your favorite question?

[telemike]

Originally Posted by Deacon Blue

...is goin' on here? :?

Jeff

Or... "What's all this, then?"

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by Darrell

Why would you want to do that?

It makes people explain their rationale behind their irrational behavior.

I fully understand and appreciated Darrell's logic behind this submission; there is usually a good reason to make people explain themselves. However, I tend to look at this very same question conversely.

In my opinion, "Why would you want to do that?" is sometimes asked by people who don't possess the ability to think beyond the average, but who have the audacity to ask--and not in a particularly kind way--someone who IS a great thinker and achiever why they do what they do. In other words, sometimes "Why would you want to do that?" is a question that defines its poser as a person who can't rise above mediocre thought and achievement.

Just my humble opinion.

Joel

[staxman]

Originally Posted by Joel Terry

In my opinion, "Why would you want to do that?" is sometimes asked by people who don't possess the ability to think beyond the average, but who have the audacity to ask--and not in a particularly kind way--someone who IS a great thinker and achiever why they do what they do. In other words, sometimes "Why would you want to do that?" is a question that defines its poser as a person who can't rise above mediocre thought and achievement.

Some men see things as they are and say "why?" I dream of things that never were and say 'why not?' --George Benard Shaw

(JFK liked this sentiment as well.) In my daughter's senior year in high school, the school counselor asked my daughter, "Why would you want to do that?", when she said she wanted to be a dance choreographer ( i.e. Why don't you just go for the more traveled and "safer" path of doctor, lawyer, or businessman.

She wisely ignored him and is well on her way to achieving her dream. Follow your bliss... why not, indeed.

(BTW, Joel, thanks for your insight on this forum and being such a good sport with the "scree scree" avatar thing. You're a good egg.)

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by staxman

Some men see things as they are and say "why?" I dream of things that never were and say 'why not?' --George Benard Shaw

(JFK liked this sentiment as well.) In my daughter's senior year in high school, the school counselor asked my daughter, "Why would you want to do that?", when she said she wanted to be a dance choreographer ( i.e. Why don't you just go for the more traveled and "safer" path of doctor, lawyer, or businessman.

She wisely ignored him and is well on her way to achieving her dream. Follow your bliss... why not, indeed.

(BTW, Joel, thanks for your insight on this forum and being such a good sport with the "scree scree" avatar thing. You're a good egg.)

Hey, thanks a million! I really appreciate that. As you can see, I've already changed my avatar back; however, I have the hilarious FUZZY "scree scree" original ready to go back up at a moment's notice! :P

Joel