Talk:Evasion (ethics)

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Prof Peter Bull

Prof Peter Bull of York University, UK has spent about 20 years studying the way politicians etc evade questions and has listed over 30 ways. Sounds like useful material for this article.--Penbat (talk) 14:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

@Penbat: Added a reference to Bull (2008); feel free to add more. Klbrain (talk) 17:05, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the listed techniques may not be necessarily deceitful

I suppose it might be worth pointing that out in the article. For example: "the question is based on a false premise", may be brought up justifiably. If you tell me you saw hunters with rifles nearby and I ask you why are the hunters hunting with spoons, the only ways you can answer that is by addressing the false premise that the hunters aren't hunting with spoons, or simply by pointing out the premise is false. I don't think it's an evasion, as the question really is faulty. --Skaruts (talk) 01:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Further I wonder if the whole section question dodging should have been merged into this page on evasion ethics/deception. While question dodging with the intent to deceive (by making it seem the question was answered) can be considered to be unethical, merely not wanting to answer the question and then using some of the techniques to avoid doing so, such as the first (ignoring the question) or some of the last (declining to answer, being unwilling to answer for example) or even attacking the questioner (while argumentatively invalid - Ad hominem, doesn't make it seem like the question was answered) does not seem to me to be deceitful or otherwise unethical.--Aresilek (talk) 18:14, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]