Why would there be a demand of evidence for my response when there isn't one for the previous question I was responding to? It appeared to me the question aske

Why would there be a demand of evidence for my response when there isn't one for the previous question I was responding to? It appeared to me the question asked was ideological, given that it was an informal question of a few sentences and not giving plenty of evidence to the idea that another competitor would have solved the issue?