Questions

(Our dinner conversation continued.)

"You know, there are three kinds of people - or three kinds of questions - that turn up in a scientific symposium," JP began his mini-lecture, "First, there are people who really want to ask something that they do not know. They are, unfortunately, in the minority."

"Yes...?"

"On the other hand, some people ask questions simply because they do not agree with the speaker and want to express their own opinion. Oh, sometimes they actually try to give another lecture to prove that the speaker is wrong."

"How horrible..."

"And, there are others who have nothing to ask. All they want to do is to say something in the public so that everyone know that they are there!"

We all laughed. The phenomenon that my friend described certainly happens outside America. After all, Homo sapiens is the only animal that has an obligation to prove their own existence.