Accusing people of asking "stupid questions" is a terrible idea

[Sephiroth]

In what way in my entire post of "yes, you can still answer people with respect and kindness" did you get the idea that I would "people beat" someone over a question?

That was more of an exaggeration to talk about you being annoyed by such people.

There's nothing wrong with feeling annoyed, it's how you respond to the person that annoys you that matters.

The point of my post was not to say that you should not be annoyed or respond with behaviour xyz. It was to question why you think there are truly stupid questions when we have no universal scale to measure them with as nothing in nature says "okay, this level is the stupid one". You feel questions are stupid because you have a certain standard.