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Everyone do also have the right to decide when to develop interest on investing in bitcoin. Some may have acquired some basic knowledges while some maybe of zero knowledge While setting up their pace to understand and cope with the system.
Quite tolerably, those who may have later have the interest with zero ideal can still be skeptic at were they feel doubts or impossible to be true which basically could be acts to their lack of knowledge.
You don't scold them rather let them know the fact at the given time if you really have the time to put them through though. So I would admit that before involving in bitcoin, your doubts must have to be cleared while you prioritize on trusting the industry and have your funds secured on your self custody.
Peopple have different ways of dealing with low coiners and no coiners, and we have no obligation to talk nice to them and/or to try to convince them that it is in their best interest to get into bitcoin.
Sometimes dumb people deserve to be called dumb, especially if they might be badly informed and spreading bad or wrong information about bitcoin.
Sure, I have no problem with the idea of helping people out, but some people don't want to be help, and interactions can go in all kinds of directions..and sometimes being nice is not the correct approach.
People have some responsibility to look into matters, and also to correct themselves if they have wrong information about bitcoin. If they might be asking us for help, then sure we might be ready and willing to help them, but we don't have to help anyone.. helping others is optional... including newbies on the forum. Sometimes there is no need to be nice to the newbies.. it depends on context, and some newbies are trying to learn about bitcoin and perhaps to learn about how to improve and/or strengthen their cashflow management systems and practices, and perhaps others are spreading bad information, and sometimes being nice to them is not the right approach.
If we were being nice to the no coiners and low coiners and listening to their dumb ideas, then many of us would likely have not figured out aspects of bitcoin ourselves including investing into bitcoin and even strengthening our cashflow management systems/practices.
You are totally right. There is surely no universal requirement for one to preach about bitcoin, especially when the other person involved in the conversation is unwilling to think out o the box or is they are more interested in proving themselves right instead of learning something new from the conversation.
At the same time, I am very certain that there can be a kind of clear picture of our own think when we respond, even to lame ideas. So even if the person in question is not benefiting, we can still gain value as mental exercise was done, especially when we tend to say things in a way that the silent ones who are intrested to listen could understand since they maybe more of good listeners than easily vocal. I wont say naturally I am being nice, but I will always try to have it in mind the tone and perfect timing because it matters a lot. Sometimes, being too sarcastic works and other times it messes things up. However, not everone deserves the effort, unless there is a case tp push for more conversation believing it will help us understand our own beliefs more clearly. And like you said earlier, if we had spent too much time trying to validate doubters in the early days, we wont have gone far. In the end we ought to speak up when it is needed and not waste our breath on people who dont care to listen.
A lot of people remain scared about bitcoin for all kinds of reasons, and the reasons these days are likely different from what they were 10-15 years ago, since the kind of information available was different, and so they would have had been in a different place in their lives, and surely it seems that more and more people are hearing about bitcoin, yet many of them continue to have hardly any clue what it is..
What is more interesting is that these days people fear not because they lack information but because they have too much of it, and they dont know how to filter the right ones from the noise. Back then, we did not have any TikTok influencer, Wall Street ETFs, MSTR pussing narratives. Its either you come accross Bitcoin through curiosity or get propelled by someone who already have the conviction, and from there we joined.
These days, people hear about Bitcoin, but wrap it up as a scam. So they have heard of it, sure folks have heard of bitcoin but there conclusion is often mixed up or half true, leading to wrong perception. I can even say, many are confused using it as a form of defense mechanism, because if they truly understand bitcoin, they will restrategise how they manage their time, value and responsiblity which not every one is ready for such change. IMO, it’s not just ignorance. People are just scared to start what they dont want to deal with in the long run. And for the fact that everything around bitcoin is different from what it was 2013-2015, beginners look back at it and dont know where to start.