I consider this particularly selfish and evil. If you know there’s a place where someone’s map doesn’t correspond to the territory, you should tell them before they inadvertently drive off a cliff.
It’s about picking and choosing battles. It’s like when someone is giving a presentation on money policy, and gets the current interest rate wrong by .1%. If it doesn’t affect the main point, it’s better to let it go. There world is full of mistakes and errors—if you stopped and corrected every one you saw, that’d be a full-time, nonstop job. And moreover, you’d waste a lot of people’s time by bringing up minutia that doesn’t make a difference.
So I think you have to pick and choose your battles, and let some things slide if they make no real-utility based difference. Mistaking the author of a 30 year old, not-all-that-important book doesn’t lead someone off a cliff. That’s basic prioritizing.
It’s about picking and choosing battles. It’s like when someone is giving a presentation on money policy, and gets the current interest rate wrong by .1%. If it doesn’t affect the main point, it’s better to let it go. There world is full of mistakes and errors—if you stopped and corrected every one you saw, that’d be a full-time, nonstop job. And moreover, you’d waste a lot of people’s time by bringing up minutia that doesn’t make a difference.
So I think you have to pick and choose your battles, and let some things slide if they make no real-utility based difference. Mistaking the author of a 30 year old, not-all-that-important book doesn’t lead someone off a cliff. That’s basic prioritizing.