When You Ask Someone a Question and they Answer with a Question?...?

It means you just asked them a sensitive question.

Let's take a look at this exchange:

Police Detective: "What do you think should be done to someone who steals mail and people's identities?"

Suspect: "“To someone who does that? What I think should be done?...”

First, the questions are asked to stall for time, they are not asked with the intention of receiving an answer. Secondly, anytime you get some sort of question it is a sensitive question. People do this to:

• It takes the "sting" out of the initial question.
• It is a way of avoiding facing the question head on.
• It is a distancing technique to separate them from the question.
  

Now that you see it for what it is, it accomplishes nothing but putting you on guard.

Here is another example, "Have you ever shoplifted anything in your life?"

"Who me? I would never steal from someone else."

This works for all conversations with anyone... and it is easy to pick up on.

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When You Ask Someone a Question and they Answer with a Question?...?