OK, OK, I get it. Maybe I was a bit over the top. If somebody can see all edits (even unposted ones) then they will be able to figure out I often rethink to get rid of what I post as too radical. That alone should say something. I DO feel the need to contribute to the human community. Or I wouldn't say a thing at all.
I will try to explain this as carefully as I can.
They OFTEN need to be pushed, today's world is chock full of little children that will sit back and let you dress them all day long. Not calling the OP a child at all BUT that post just smacked to me of 'I don't want to think about it, I'll get them to do it for me'. It was too simple a thing to ask by someone who took it on himself as having the skills to do the job. Someone not being able to recognize the difference in throttles and choke assembly as well as not moving throttle and choke to see how and which way it works, doesn't need to be removing a carb bank to begin with. Yeah, it's his, he can drop it off a cliff if he wants but once people start asking things like which way the wheels turn when a car moves, well, this was close to that to me. If carried out far enough we could even possibly take part in someone like that getting himself hurt or killed. If one simply responds with do this and no regard for the person, they are empowering and setting in concrete that, the 'users' of the world will then simply smother you with that. I've been there. 7 billion people on the planet, should we fulfill that while others who respond better to constructive criticism go unhelped? I ask that after training people in various businesses on many things over a number of years, maybe it was the drawing the line to cut some of them loose as untrainable and can't make any money off them, yes, I had to do things I wasn't happy with.
People who are comfortable have no reason to come out of that comfort zone, i.e., they will be using others forever instead of developing themselves. I personally feel that when we facilitate that further we are doing a disservice regardless of what we tell them.
Why I, being the eternal idiot that I am, often bring the driver/owner into it rather than just sticking with the machine only, what y'all ask is often the easy way out. You say it's for the poster but it's just as much for you, you have comfort zones too.
There are often TWO things to be fixed there, a machine and the person who operates it, often the person is much more of a problem than the machine and not to us, rather to his getting a successful conclusion to his own particular issue. It just runs out of some of them in buckets.
So, why do we simply fix things without truly doing so, the machine is only part of the equation..................better to try to fix both, of course the machine can't say a word, the people, well that's much harder.
Give the guy fish, he eats once, show him how to fish, her eats forever.................It's damn delicate and I for one am no expert at it having done it for years. And yes, I often look like an ass doing it like here.
We had this guy who was a customer at Dad's garage/race shop who was that type of person, we responded exactly like you guys say, just help him with what he wants. There were some visible people issues there. Long story short and carried to an extreme, he later killed 6 people and then 5-6 weeks later burned to death himself, at some point we (ME, I tried but apparently not hard enough) fell short on the people end of things to help enable that.