&gt;Ever go to a gym and ask someone how to do a basic lift only to be scoffed at? Ever been to a foreign country and have someone berate you for not understanding how to navigate through some strange process or not knowing how to speak their language well enough?<p>Ever asked a stranger out and been shot down harshly?<p>Part of the reason some people learn to respond this way is because there are so many people bothering them.  One or two wouldn&#x27;t be an issue.  It may even be a small boost that they turn to you.  But when it is person #6214, with the same problem, and the same solution, which is well documented for someone out there, it gets hard to keep responding kindly.  In the same way that you aren&#x27;t likely to be as nice saying no to the #6214 person interrupting you at a bar to ask you out.