Ai Weiwei: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

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Recorded Ai Weiwei said elsewhere, not written here

Insensitivity. Indifference about what is right or wrong. Indifference about justice.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Ardal O'Hanlon Irish comedian and actor

Lack of self-doubt.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗

Greed, lack of empathy. Same thing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 November 2025 source ↗

Maya Jama British television and radio presenter

When people are disingenuous.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2023 source ↗

Inability to listen.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗

To survive from an impossible condition.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 April 2018 source ↗

Now, in this moment, in this city.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

Losing consciousness or awareness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

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