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A question can be an attempt at “mindreading” quite easily. The question mark at the end doesn't change it.

Nonsense, it is asking a question.

The question mark at the end doesn't change it. If I read your posts and then say “are you a Communists?”, I am attempting to read your philosophy from your comments and conclude that you are a Communist.

If I had made comments that were somehow consistent with communist ideology you would be justified. The reality is that you HAVE made many comments on this thread that are typical of libertarians, so it makes perfect sense that someone would ask.

Moreover you seem to have jumped right over my answer to that question in the negative, and based your arguments on the assumption that I am in fact a libertarian - to the extent that you further attempted to mindread me and assumed I was against the Federal regulation of drugs.

Perhaps I wasn't clear on drugs in that statement, I was referring to birth control pills.

A statement formed as a question is rarely mind reading because it represents only the mind of the one speaking. A simple "no" or "not so" in reply establishes that the speaker was wrong.

And questions are rarely "making it personal."

For instance, "are you an idolator?" is not mind reading. "You are a idolator" is mind reading.

Another example, "do you reject Jesus?" is not mind reading. "You reject Jesus" is mind reading.

But a question like "are you off your meds?" is flame baiting. It is clearly making it personal.

And a question like "why do you reject Jesus?" presumes the mind of the other guy and is mind reading and making it personal.