Please be aware you have interpreted contrarian behaviour, which can be very negative and disruptive when unchecked, as having a virtuous cause. Other causes w

Please be aware you have interpreted contrarian behaviour, which can be very negative and disruptive when unchecked, as having a virtuous cause. Other causes worth examining: ego (desire to prove one's intelligence), one-up-manship (desire to harm/contradict/take down arguments of others), deficiency (not observing feelings of others or not addressing the end-goal of the task in favour of hair splitting), hedonism (argument gives you pleasure no matter the consequences for the task or others) etc. Contrarians can be intolerable team members so it requires care to harness and channel an analytical mind and not let it be driven by base and counter-productive motivations. Its very easy not to notice and stick with a seductive virtuous justification for bad behaviour.