Argument On Neutrality

How can a question be neutral? Neutrality, by its very nature is to not be involved, to not choose a side in dividing circumstances, or to not hold bias. When a question is asked, there is an inquisition for a substantial answer to advance knowledge or information pertaining to a specific topic. When students ask a questions in class, the student may not have a biased intent, however they are directly involving themselves. Questions will always have an underlying intent hindering neutrality, and furthermore it is in a question’s nature to express one’s doubt or curiosity. Therefore there are underlying motives or intentions within our ethics and religious knowledge systems that come to take a significant role in a question’s intentions. …show more content…
With this opposing argument comes a second knowledge question of: to what extent is neutrality subjected to the Natural and Human Sciences? An individual will find himself or herself asking questions amongst a group of friends with hesitation. They might think they others will judge them harshly because of their lack of knowledge of a certain topic, which consequently leads into the alteration of the question to better fit the situation. So because the question is not being asked because they do not want to get involved with a possible future conflict so the question is replaced, is the replacement question neutral? Some would argue yes on account of that the individual is not involving himself or herself in anyway, but they are. Entering high school, I was not familiar with what all the other kids in my classes were familiar with and so as I felt pressured to have knowledge of what they talked about. When I would ask questions, any question at all, it wouldn’t be to vague or too specific, it was more as if I was asking for their opinion on whatever the conversation happened to be about and I would gather other’s opinions, mix them together and call it my own. I wanted to be involved, people desire to be apart of their environment, we hate being excluded and not knowing, this gives questions that are influenced by our social environment motive. There is a similar complication when a question is asked with the foundation of factual evidence and proof in such that in the natural sciences there is the intentional prediction of outcomes. For example, when my brother was growing a bean plant for school, he took his curiosity and the activity a step further by using different soil found around our house. He wanted