Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Which of these questions is the most complex and difficult to answer and what type of people are concerned with which questions?
I would argue that it is a close call, but it is a near tie between Why and How, with Why being the toughest, and that two very distinctly different mindsets are concerned with each.
Why is the only one that in it's asking suggests that there is something other than human reality or perception in it's asking.
I want to know what you guys think the most complicated question is.
2 comments:
I'd agree with it being "why?". Like you said, "how" could be equally complicated, but I feel you're more able to find a concrete/ scientific explanation to "how" questions. When asking a person why they did something, that gets into their mental state & experiences which could be so different from yours that you can't possibly understand the why (drawing on my working in psychiatry again-- man, this job comes in handy sometimes). "Why did you kill that man?" "The voices told me to." To that person, they may have just given you the most perfectly logical explanation, but since you can't hear the voices or even know that they're actually there, the answer raises probably even more complicated questions. Also, in the journalism school they teach us that the How & Why will be the majority of your news story-- the who, what, when can get covered in the lead, but people always want to know the Why & what happens now. Damn, lunch break over.
It's no fun to agree, but Why obviously wins. Let's throw Who into the front though, as an internal "Why" caliber question, ie Who am I?
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