Even being right, you can still be a jerk. Though being wrong and a jerk is definitely worse in a sense, personally I think that attitudes that qualify you as

Even being right, you can still be a jerk. Though being wrong and a jerk is definitely worse in a sense, personally I think that attitudes that qualify you as being a jerk only marginally help you in being honest. The basic idea is that even if someone is a moron, calling them a moron isn't really.... doing much. Very little information, and a lot of rudeness. Telling them that their patch isn't mergable has more info and less raw rudeness IMO