The flip side is that it's as easy to blow someone off by sneering at "just asking questions" when they either honestly don't know, or where they disagree with

The flip side is that it's as easy to blow someone off by sneering at "just asking questions" when they either honestly don't know, or where they disagree with you but honestly think you can't answer the questions. And sometimes people ask questions because they know very well what someone is insinuating, but are trying to force them to actually say it outright.