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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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Well then why bother asking? If you're not going to read it, and you don't care about what it's saying, then you've just come here to get pissy
As drivers are wont to do...
You asked 2 questions that are actually highly relevant to a discussion about this article, and they weren't attached to any argument. Do YOU know what a rhetorical question is?
Yes, but why male models?
I'm well aware of the concept - but the whole point of them is to suggest other perspectives to view a concept from to gain a different understanding of the issue at hand
What you did is just asking questions that were answered in the article, thinking "haha, I've got them!" Then you got defensive and pretended they were all rhetorical when everyone pointed out you'd know the answer if you just read the damn article.
For example, let's imagine we're discussing an article about a court fining someone for violating a gag order.
A good format for a rhetorical question might be "would the judge have given this sentence to him if he was ...?"
Note how this isn't something that would be covered in article, because it covers a theoretical scenario.
A bad rhetorical question might be "how much was the fine?" This is because you could just read the damn story.
If the critical thinking is obvious, and explicitly answered in the content being discussed, then you have added nothing to the conversation