I agree. It's not even that we over-weight being technically correct. Correctness and kindness are not mutually exclusive at all. I suspect you're right and it

I agree. It's not even that we over-weight being technically correct. Correctness and kindness are not mutually exclusive at all. I suspect you're right and it boils down to the fact that a lot of us tech types have substantial pride. Worse, we support a substantial amount of our self-worth from being knowledgeable and correct, and so of course we have to both demonstrate and defend it. I recognize that truth in most of my real-life nerd friends as well as myself even as I try to temper it. I don't know what the solution is for a community like this that will always be filled with people of so many unique stripes and neurotypes. Other than striving to argue our disagreements from curiosity instead of superiority.