As to the "why" you do it... I guess it is because what we involuntarily think of as lesser minds tend to piss us off.
OK, that was just the symptom, here's why.
See, the brain is sort of like a basket, and most people just fill it with
shit and
air.
Most people will never be lifelong learners. Their brains will stop growing when they aren't forced to go to school anymore.
Well, shit and air in all its loveliness, but they might as well be cows to me sometimes.
At least when I am in my worst periods of dark INTJness.
INTJs hate inefficiency and rampant wastefulness.
We'd rather see that people filled their "baskets" with useful things instead of being able to recount the entire history of the Boston Redsox, all the players' names etc.
That's mental shit right there.
Then when what I would like to call a shithead
D) gets into an attempted serious conversation about some profoundly serious (well, to us anyway... lol) subject and get their facts all wrong but refuse to budge...
Another thing that really pisses me off is people who can't interpret cause and effect very well.
That often correlates to not being able to take facts from the point of a large overview and see a whole.
The "whole" that they get is often so twisted and primitively misinterpreted that I just walk away in disgust.
Well, let's just say that the whacking I wish to do upon them is not of the sexual kind.
:steam:
Then it sort of blows over quickly, because I got older at some point.
But still, I can't stand most people in the long run.
I'd say that your being "bad" is not the entire truth here.
Maybe your previous friends are retarded assholes, too.
And maybe you also need to grab yourself by the collar and shake some sense into yourself.
The fact that you came to this insight, though, tells me that you are doubting yourself.
Correct a few errors and stop doing that excessively. It's self-abuse.
Keeping a check on things is good, but to second-guess everything you do all the time is horrible and it'll make you into a pathetic doormat.