It's a personality type / disorder (pick your poison). There's no hope for change. Programming seems to attract such people, because they are fixated on being right and proving that they are right. I know a few more examples. My common sense policy is - if the software these types produce works for me, I will be using it, but I will never allow myself to be dependent on it. That kind of person will gladly burn their own house to the ground, with everyone in it, if that's what's required to prove their truths or maintain some kind of intellectual purity.

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HybridStatAnim8 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Nobody on the GrapheneOS team is mentally ill or unwell. There is no personality issue. Defending themselves is not an ubquenchable drive to be right, it is the right of anyone to be able to defend themselves.

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cindyllm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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1attice 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

One common personality disorder I see a lot is psychologizing your interlocutors to invalidate them, thus insulating you from having to think you're wrong about something

Classic OCPD behaviour

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throw4847285 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One common personality disorder I see is being extremely defensive when encountering any discussion of human psychology. This comes from a deep psychological fragility.

Classic OAD (Obvious Asshole Disorder)

	▲	1attice 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You couldn't even bother to google an actual disorder! Bah, you insult me :)

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neonstatic 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok, but what I'd be wrong about here? I'm not even claiming that the person in the article is that way. I don't know enough about them. I have noticed a certain trend, however, and that's what I was noting.