# When did you stop beating your wife? Challenging loaded questions in FQ **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 29, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife-challenging-loaded-questions-in-fq/977291 "2022-12-29T17:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife-challenging-loaded-questions-in-fq/977291/4 "2022-12-29T18:02:45Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > And the moderation is tightly shutting down any challenge or discussion of this premise, such as: > (a) whether studies are feasible in practice, which speaks to whether we should reasonably _expect_ to see empirical data; > (b) whether a parenting strategy can only be validated with empirical data, or whether it may have a foundation in ethical values - what our children _should_ know about fundamental human rights such as bodily autonomy. I might also add another premise that I think may be worth challenging, but which I fear the current moderator stance would preclude: (c) that the only or even primary reason people should teach their children (or that anyone should be taught) about things like healthy boundaries and consent is for its efficacy in preventing child sexual abuse specifically (as opposed to, oh, I don’t know, ensuring children and even adults understand socially and/or legally important concepts like consent and healthy relationship boundaries???) But in general, I agree with what I believe to be @Riemann’s main point: that sometimes people start threads that assume a lot just in how they are framed (both in the title and in the body of the OP itself), and that we should be allowed to unpack what may be some dubious assumptions in order to have a productive exchange, rather than being strictly limited to the implicit scope of the thread as framed _when that framing is problematic_. See also my perhaps poorly named thread of two years past: > [@Question Begging in Thread Titles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-begging-in-thread-titles/928555): > > This thread is intended as a support group for those who are, like me, triggered by threads that commit the logical fallacy of “begging the question” in the thread title itself. I feel this is worthy of a pit thread because my initial (triggered) reaction when I see such a thread title is to assume that the poster is engaged in a subtle form of trolling, perhaps seeking to invite controversy or even a threadshit (and consequent warning) for those who would directly challenge the thread’s premise… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife-challenging-loaded-questions-in-fq/977291)._