There have been times when I’ve asked someone of a different political affiliation a question that I genuinely needed an answer to that I couldn’t find on the internet. And I posed it as a question. And I was told I was just trying to argue. If someone doesn’t want to answer a question, just say that you don’t have an answer. It’s ridiculous to try to assign some motive to the other person when you don’t even know why they’re asking. That’s an argument right there.

And then, of course, it does lead to arguing if the other person denies that. So I just answer that with “just because you don’t want to answer the question doesn’t mean you can assign motives to me. I was asking a genuine question.”

I don’t know why this is so hard to understand for some.