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The problem is that you believe that your internal motivation justifies your expectations of other people.
Because your intentions are virtuous you expect that other people be "touched", be grateful, help you by steelmanning your arguments, etc. And it's not a matter of empathy, it's a matter of whether your state of mind imposes obligations on other people. It looks reasonable to you because from your point of view you only want to teach and it's reasonable that other people help you teach them. But try taking an external view (and try being more consequentialist, too).
Christian missionaries appeared in this subthread not by accident -- they also care and also want to help and also make sacrifices to teach what they teach.
We're not in disagreement! :-) What I'm saying is that after many years, I finally came around to understanding what you're telling me right now. Your remarks are a useful update further in the same direction. I've genuinely benefitted from this interaction.