text: why ask why xxx on yahoo answers? there are some people out there who ask questions here. inane, stupid, and purposefully brash, sexual and ignorant questions. they do it to get a rise out of people, to see people get all worked up over them.  they post them to get flamed, to get berated and belittled by other on the interweb. but why? what social environment would one be raised in in order to spur them on to such wastes of time? what kind of positive feedback or emotional boost does one get from being called out on their lack of tact/intellect/maturity?  it is (as penny-arcade put it) due to the greater internet fuckwad theory, where the anonymity provided by a keyboard and internet connection brings out the drooling ape in us?  or are they just all immature 12 yr olds, each doing it once, but adding up? people do it because they want attention and they need to grow up. they remind me of little kids who look up dirty words or body parts in the dictionary