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Why is Why?

 Since time immemorial, society has had problems with those who asked questions that were dangerous to our precariously balanced ideas. From the Inquisitions of France, Spain and many other kingdoms during the Middle Ages to the Mihna of the 9th century in the Middle East. Even today, in our presumably more free society, asking questions about many matters is looked down upon. Whether asking about someone’s change in gender to the most trivial reason - why they eat so much cheese, for instance - is seen on a scale of socially unacceptable. In the beginning, there was one answer to every question. ‘God’. Soon, however, that began to fall apart. You couldn’t blame God for the lack of corn which you didn’t sow, or tell yourself God made the stone tool which you just finished carving. As humanity began to properly come to terms with philosophy and causal manipulation, we came to understand that God was not the answer to every question. Thus, we began asking and trying to answer questions.