I’m sneaky enough that I’m happy to ask a question where there’s the implicit metaquestion: “Is [this question] answerable?”
I suppose the only time I specifically wouldn’t want to know the answer to a question is if I thought that getting the answer was ‘cheating’ somehow. Mysteries and games are much less fun if you know exactly how things will unfold and turn out – unless the path itself remains a mystery.
I’m sneaky enough that I’m happy to ask a question where there’s the implicit metaquestion: “Is [this question] answerable?”
I suppose the only time I specifically wouldn’t want to know the answer to a question is if I thought that getting the answer was ‘cheating’ somehow. Mysteries and games are much less fun if you know exactly how things will unfold and turn out – unless the path itself remains a mystery.