In this post I would like to discuss loaded questions and how relevant they are to any organization that administers rules and regulations. I have witnessed, and received many loaded questions from any form of official in any organization. For example, my parents asking me: Why did you decide to go against our wishes and come home after curfew? This is a huge loaded question because who says that I “decided” to be late and come home after curfew? I could have been in many different situations that did not allow me to get home before curfew. What if I was pulled over by a cop and he decided to preach his life lessons of being a safe driver to me? I wouldn’t dare tell him to shutup.
Another example of a loaded question would be from the PO PO. I would say they are the kings of loaded questions. It seems they always assume the worst and ask questions already placing guilt just to twist you into so many different knots that by the end of it you do not even know if your innocent or guilty. For example, my friend told me a story of a Drunk in Public charged that he received awhile back. He said that they arrested him and took him into county jail. When he got there they lined everybody up and had them sit down one at a time to take a blow test. What he didn’t knkow is that legally you do not have to take a blow test if you do not want to. Legally, you can say no. But, he said, that when the cop sat him down, the cop said: “are you going to open your mouth?” in a tone that was as if he had said: “OPEN YOUR F#%^$*@ MOUTH!” this is totally a loaded question because it conceals the claim that he does not have to take the blow test if he does not want to.
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