Are “how would you respond to…” questions good-subjective?

Question

Besides the topics themselves (which is clearly controversial in at least this case) I don't think "How would you..." questions can be ever considered acceptable as:

1. They are list questions (each person can give a different correct answer). List questions are bad.
2. They are never fact-based, they clearly invite speculation by presenting a hypothetical situation.
3. They may disguise any off-topic or not appropriate question. E.g. "How would you respond to <insert whatever rant here> as a Christian?"

As such they should be closed as non-constructive.

Answer 1

My opinion is that the couple examples we have seen of this are not good-subjective questions.

I would disagree that they can never be fact-based, but chances are if they do hold potential they could be re-worded better. For example it's possible some "how would you respond to" questions could be re-worded "what is [the protestant] response to" or some other variant where an official or defended position could be expected. If a question could not fit that format, it's likely not a good candidate for good-subjective.

I closed the original version of this question, I was a little bit surprised to see it pop back up here. The second OP definitely fixed the quality problem with the offensive wording, but I still don't think it's a good fit for SE. As you note it's basically a list question where everybody is going to have a different approach.