It's easy to get bogged down with beliefs about good guys and bad guys without listening to the other side of a discussion. I do it all the time.

I've often fallen into the perspective that people who don't like bitcoin are either ignorant or malicious... In most cases they are ignorant about key facts regarding the technology, but that doesn't dismiss everything they have to say.

It takes a sound mind to consider the accurate points within arguments one might otherwise disagree with.