When fielding questions and observing others around Fluther, it appears to me, that some people seem to be threatened by hard questions that challenge what or how they think and believe about things, especially when they have to make tough choices about their morality, logic, or political correctness, etc. People will introduce an option that is akin to “low hanging fruit”, attempt to dismiss the question or avoid answering it, and if the options are worse or more horrendous, they want to choose something OK which was not one of the options. For instance, if someone had the choice of how their death would come, and the options are bleeding out from a shark attack, being burned to death in a vehicle accident or dying in your sleep, who would pick any of the first two with the “low hanging fruit, easy third option”? How challenging of a question could it be if there were super easy options to choose from? Because choosing from worse to horrendous would confront an individual’s personal demons, are people more threatened by a question that would expose them?

Topics: questions, easy, threatened, avoidance, challenging, Hard questions, low hanging fruit, tough decisions