I find it highly offensive on multiple levels that A) people think that sort of behavior is necessary or acceptable, and B) that there are people out there who

I find it highly offensive on multiple levels that A) people think that sort of behavior is necessary or acceptable, and B) that there are people out there who reinforce that belief by being the ass-hat who answers valid questions with "RTFM!". If someone has trouble understanding man pages, that's reasonable. Turn them on to other (more easily parsed by "average folk") sources of the same information, and request that they "pay it forward" in similar fashion.