Rightly or wrongly, people often get annoyed with disagreeable and critical people. One common argument is that they’re being disagreeable for strategic reasons: to “seem smart”, or something similar. But I think such strategic disagreeableness is less common than it might seem. Instead, I think that people who are critical of some claim or argument usually are so simply because they feel it’s flawed. I think it’s much more common that people are being nice and warm for strategic reasons, than that they’re being critical for such reasons.
Strategic disagreeableness is uncommon
Strategic disagreeableness is uncommon
Strategic disagreeableness is uncommon
Rightly or wrongly, people often get annoyed with disagreeable and critical people. One common argument is that they’re being disagreeable for strategic reasons: to “seem smart”, or something similar. But I think such strategic disagreeableness is less common than it might seem. Instead, I think that people who are critical of some claim or argument usually are so simply because they feel it’s flawed. I think it’s much more common that people are being nice and warm for strategic reasons, than that they’re being critical for such reasons.