Good answer

May 9, 2016 at 11:50 am · Filed under conflict

“Why are you asking that?” This, I’ve found, is always a good answer to an unfriendly question. – Rebecca Solnit, in The Mother of All Questions

h/t KC

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  sanjose61 wrote @ May 9, 2016 at 11:19 pm

Or more neutrally and pithily, “why do you ask?”

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  sanjose61 wrote @ May 9, 2016 at 11:19 pm

Another strategy I employ when I don’t like a question is to slowly
repeat the question back to the questioner.

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