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Why are most "Why did country X...?" & "Why does country X think...?" left open yet if it's an individual it's closed (we can't get into their head)?
I'm just starting to understand what is and is not on-topic here and what is close-able, should be closed, leave-open-able and should be left open, so I'm hoping answers here will give me some more ...
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(should we have) Rules on “why isn’t” questions
Currently (as far as I know) there are no rules on “why doesn’t xxx have yyy or do zzz”, and the answer (most of the time) is just “why would they?” “There’s no reason to.” “They didn’t see a point to ...
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(Why) is it on topic to ask why crime has gone up or down in a certain area?
A recent q asks What has caused the steep increase in violent crime in Baltimore over the last decade?
The argument for this being on topic is that
Government actions and policies obviously can ...
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What should we do with the "why" questions?
We often get "why isn't X a case" questions, especially for USA.
The problem with most1 such questions is that they are really two questions in one:
"Why isn't there a law for X"?
Which has one, ...
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"Why did this happen?" Questions
Recently a question of the form "Why is country X against project Y of country Z" was closed (and now deleted by its maker) as off topic as requiring non-public sources.
That we shouldn't guess is ...
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