I think that's a very good type of question given that the object is to make someone reluctant to answer it, because it means passing judgement on others in a public forum.
On the other hand, it's not a good question per se because it's probably impossible to answer. You might just as well have asked someone to rank Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Britten and Byrd in strict order of musical talent.
Though of course it shouldn't mean passing any sort of meaningful judgement: just because I don't enjoy A as much as B (for any values of A and B in any context) doesn't mean that A is bad, or that other people mightn't enjoy A more than B; it doesn't even mean that I don't enjoy A.
You might just as well have asked someone to rank Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Britten and Byrd in strict order of musical talent.
Er, it's not really the same though, is it? I doubt if you could get any two musicologists or whatever to agree on what "musical talent" constituted, let alone which of the composers you list had most of it. Whereas the original question was asking me to rank people in order of "how much [I] enjoyed [my] sexual encounters with them" -- purely subjective, I'm the only person qualified to answer it, I could (if I so wished) define it however I like really, and nobody would have any grounds on which to argue with me.
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Date: 2004-07-30 06:05 am (UTC)On the other hand, it's not a good question per se because it's probably impossible to answer. You might just as well have asked someone to rank Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Britten and Byrd in strict order of musical talent.
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Date: 2004-07-30 05:32 pm (UTC)Though of course it shouldn't mean passing any sort of meaningful judgement: just because I don't enjoy A as much as B (for any values of A and B in any context) doesn't mean that A is bad, or that other people mightn't enjoy A more than B; it doesn't even mean that I don't enjoy A.
You might just as well have asked someone to rank Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Britten and Byrd in strict order of musical talent.
Er, it's not really the same though, is it? I doubt if you could get any two musicologists or whatever to agree on what "musical talent" constituted, let alone which of the composers you list had most of it. Whereas the original question was asking me to rank people in order of "how much [I] enjoyed [my] sexual encounters with them" -- purely subjective, I'm the only person qualified to answer it, I could (if I so wished) define it however I like really, and nobody would have any grounds on which to argue with me.