Vordertur
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I find this almost obscenely ironic given your choice of avatar. Because it seems to me that what you're essentially saying is "People are going to be stupid. We should just accept their incompetence."Last point. How many times have you seen people ask how to extract the compressed file? I have seen it often enough to see a pattern. These people can't even extract an .rar or zip file. I think it is quite a stretch to expect them to effectively use the search function.
Now tell me about Q's role in the Star Trek universe. The Continuum, or at least the Q played by DeLancie didn't take this view on things, did he? If he had, Next Gen would have been a very different show. Instead, he gave Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew a hard time, but in doing so, he enabled them to become better, to grasp insights into the way the universe works that they never would have had the opportunity to see before.
While I am fully aware that most people going "Just look it up yourself" are speaking out of laziness themselves - as in, they don't want to take the time to provide a substantive answer. But I don't really see what's so bad about someone walking in here without even the basic skillset of how to use a search engine, and then being told "I could give you the answer, but you're better served learning how to learn the answers yourself."