The importance of Why?

[lumberjim]

The five question. Who What Where When Why and How? 4 are short answer questions.

Who did it?...someone did.

What? ....what we're asking about.

Where? ....everything happens somewhere(s)

When? .....time is linear. quantifiable

How? .....what series of events occured

All can be defined and proven scientifically.

Why? Sometimes we never find out.

And Why is what really matters. The things people do, they do for reasons. In this respect, things are like guns, and reasons are like criminals. It's the reasons that kill people, not the gun or the shooter, or the victim.

The kids in the senior prank thread attempted to tape their teacher to his chair. The debate on this subject is is focused on the Why. Did the kids do it out of malice, or a prank? It makes all the difference in the world.

So, when confronted with things unexplainable, or unknown to us, we must focus on the Why. I see something happen, and I see who did it. I know when they did it, and how they did it. Now Why did they do it? Why did they choose go about doing it the way that they did? Why do they feel the way that they do about who they did it to? Why do I feel the way I do about what it was that they did?

All questions with long answers, and invariably, more questions, including more why's into infinity.

Little kids ask Why a lot.

I wonder why.