> if someone believes something incorrect - or worse - then they need to be corrected.

Why is that? I may feel that somebody is wrong, and that may be correct, but it could also be incorrect. A priori, they are not less correct than you are. Then why do you need to go to them and tell them that what they think is wrong and what you think is right?

I'm glad that people don't do that all the time. I'm sure I meet lots of people every day that think I'm wrong on something. Sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly. If every time they would feel that I "need to be corrected", that would be terrible.

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sorrythanks 7 days ago | parent [-]

There are things that are true

	▲	teiferer 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure. But there is no objective arbitter of truth. In a similar vein, if I'm standing at a train station discussing some topic with a friend on which we have different opinions w.r.t facts, I would not feel comfortable if a stranger would come up, insert themselves into our conversation and start unasked to "correct" one of us (or both). Occasionally and if it's done very politely, maybe. But if that happened every time I'd be seriously annoyed. Correct or not.