re: Do you always correct people when you know they are wrong about something?

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No I'm not a narcissist.

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I don't think correcting people if they believe something that you know to be wrong makes you a narcissist.

There's just times when it seems like it might be best to spare them the embarrassment of being wrong, but I can completely see the value of helping them by providing them accurate information and thus giving them knowledge instead of leaving them to go on believing something fundamentally untrue and potentially embarrassing themselves worse in future company.

I'm not talking about being a petty a-hole who always has to be right even at the expense of common sense manners and context, I'm talking about relatively harmless situations where correcting someone might make them feel silly.