Human interaction is full of taboos. Big ones such as politically sensitive topics, but also small (but omnipresent) ones such as not contradicting people with higher status.
So practically in any situation there are dozens of questions you are not allowed to ask. Sometimes they do not block the solution to the problem at hand; sometimes they do.
Avoiding the actual question
Lots of what is being done, all the time, is avoiding difficult questions
Important to notice in ourselves, when we are doing this and in others.
Examples:
Proposing solutions before discussing a hard problem as thoroughly as possible
Human interaction is full of taboos. Big ones such as politically sensitive topics, but also small (but omnipresent) ones such as not contradicting people with higher status.
So practically in any situation there are dozens of questions you are not allowed to ask. Sometimes they do not block the solution to the problem at hand; sometimes they do.