No Answer Is Bad Answer

Remember the days when were in school, and the exam season comes, the best tip any teacher would give is never to leave any questions unanswered. Even if you don't know the answer, just shoot on something. In this case, its much easier if the exam has objective answers where you have a choice selection of 5 possible answers namely A, B, C, D and E. Whichever one you shoot, you stand a 20% chance to a correct answer but if you were to leave it empty, you score nothing.

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That is why "no answer is bad answer". In a conversation, when asked a question, by not answering brings danger of a "bad answer". Or if you deliberately divert the question to something else, it is as good as unanswered. It becomes even more dangerous when the question thrown to you is a sensitive question. By answering "yes", you may be admitting to something bad or embarrassing. So, you choose not to answer. But by not answering, it may mean that you are trying to hide something. And the truth deters you from saying "no".

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You can't say yes and neither can you say no. So, you divert the question! But "no answer is bad answer". By not answering the question, you leave a vacuum for assumptions and imaginations. And sometimes, such imaginations can run very very wild and far away from the actual truth. The story, so far twisted, that is brings wrong judgement unto the question.

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But then again, there is also a type of brainees where the answer is a "No, I didn't do it" but yet choose not to answer directly. They would rather explain why there is no point of giving an answer than to just give the answer! It could be a simple "no" and be freed from all implications.

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For me, in such conversations, I get really annoyed with "no answers". I want to hear a "no" but I just can't get one. I fear a "yes" but even that I don't get. So, that leaves me to my imagination and the human psychological mind will naturally lean towards the negative "yes". Which means now I automatically fall into a depression mode because the answer, for the moment, is a "Yes, I did it".

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Now wouldn't be it so much easier to just answer the simple question? Yes?