Why do people answer Rhetorical Questions?

answer: to prove they are not rhetorical questions, and that they are just normal questions.

ANSWERS:

Nothing says empty rhetoric like an answered rhetorical question.

ANSWER:

Because they've got five minutes till home time

ANSWER:

Rethorical question are actually not rethorical, cause there is no such thing as a question, that cant be answered. I myself have discovered the meaning of life. I wrote in on a note, stuck it in a box with fake bottom, and that's full of useless junk, so nobody will ever find it. TRUE STORY you can even make me describe the contents.

Because there isn't a good enough reason not to.