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Is there a word for these sorts of “why don’t they just...” type of suggestions?

• noughtme 5y ago
  Uninformed.
• burnished 5y ago
  yeah, just guarantee that everyone rocks up to a conversation already enlightened. problem solved, no more questions like that.
• JackFr 5y ago
  It would be great if there where a way to ask “why don’t they just...”, with an emphasis on the “why” so rather than coming off as an uniformed blowhard one could inform themselves. I suppose a more circumspect way to ask might be “is there a reason they don’t ...?”
  • regularfry 5y ago
    Leaving out the word "just" does just fine.
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  "Oversimplification" and "trivialisation" come to mind.
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27417079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27417079 "whynotism" Credit/blame: greyface