"If you really need help you don't go up to people and ask if they're 'nice people.' You go up to people and say, 'I need help.'"

Um, that is a piece of batshittery, right there. It's either a transparently self-justifying lie, or it's a striking lack of any ability of picturing how someone else might think, or understand someone else's reasons or actions. Either way... feh.