Why Do People Attempt To Reinforce Or Push Their Opinions On Others Through Questions?

I’ve noticed that a lot of the time on Y!A, people who post questions aren’t actually looking for an answer, but instead a statement that will reinforce their opinion. Usually when someone responds with an answer they disagree with, they attempt to argue/debate with it. And other times, people are just trying to shove their opinion down your throat.
Anyone else notice this? Does it annoy you? Why do people do this?

Why Are People Too Lazy To Use Oil Paint?

Why are so many people too lazy to use oil/Alkyd paint?
Really, washing your hands and brushes with a bit of Varsol is not a terrible chore. Or here si an idea…toss the god damed brush, they are cheap and not really reusable anyways.
Alkyd paint is so much nicer, its thick, water proof, better adhesion, and less prone to wear from foot traffic?
Why are people too lazy to wash with varsol and too delicate to handle the fumes? Dont you want your paint job to last?
Oh, and on the same note, why are so many people too lazy to prime?
I do this kind of work on and off, and it never ceased to amaze me how lazy people are and how much shoddy work they do out of being lazy.

Why Are There Evil People In The World? What Causes People To Commit Evil Crimes?

I am writing a journalism piece for my high school newspaper and want to see what people around the world think of criminals who kill for no reason, people who rape for no reason, and people who abuse their children for no reason. What causes these people to hurt others?

Why Do People Get Annoyed At Others Who Speak Their Language?

Hi, I’m from England and I often hear from some of my fellow Englishmen that they hate they way Americans spell and a pronounce words in the English language (I find those people who bash Americans for these to be ignorant morons).
Anyway, I’d like to know if this sort of thing happens between other countries sharing the same language.
Like, do do some Spanish people complain about the way Mexicans speak their language? Or what about people from Portugal? Do they get annoyed with people from Brazil?

Why Do People Some People Consider Cleveland To Be A Dirty City?

I visited Cleveland last June and really enjoyed myself there. Before planning my trip, I read a couple a travel books and a few personal opinions on a travel site of people who had visited. Quite a few people regarded it as being a dirty city that offered visitors few entertainment sites; however, when I visited I found it to be a really beautiful city–much cleaner than most! Just wondering what people on yahoo answers have to say about Cleveland. Also, not topic related, but, I saw a UFO in Cleveland; that became the highlight of my trip.

Why People Knows The Right Way In Investment & He Willing To Teach Others While He Can Make A Lot Of Money?

Why some smart people knows the way about investment and he could make a lot of money, BUT still want to teach others how to invest?
For example, like some people play stock market. They willing to tell people what would be the trend of a stock or they would write a book to let other people know how to make money.
I don’t understand. If they kept the serect, they could make so much money to themselve. Why tell other how to do?

Why People Are Giving Only Archaeological Values To The Relics Of Saints?

They are not kept in ice or herbs or something like that. And there were other people(monks) buryed in the same place as the relics of saints and they have rotted. There is no logical explanation for this. Why people say that there must be an logic explanation ? Is not that a cover for the their wish not to believe? I live in a country where there are relics of saints.So I have more information than people that are not religious.Why many people are telling their opinion even thety don tknow much about it?

Why Do People Ignore Or Deny The Existence Of Decent Black People?

Why is it that when the few black people that some people know are those rude, uneducated inner-city ghetto folk on welfare, they insist that every black is like that? There are some good and educated black people out there, but some of you people always just disregard them just because there are bad ghetto thugs! Why insist that blacks that can do anything nice and useful are like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? What about black people like astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson? Why not make fun of the English instead?