So apparently we need to take classes on empathy now

[Bonobo]

29. You have identified what is probably his central defining characteristic.

Call him a crusader, a correcter, an arbiter or an authoritarian.

It is clearly serving an important purpose for him and how he chooses to define himself to himself.

In that sense, we are merely tools to be used by him in his quest to bring meaning and focus and definition to himself.

In short, it is a way to tell himself a story about himself. It is filling a need.

Maybe the story is that he is a better man than others, that he is more complete or evolved, but rest assured this quest here and there on DU to "correct" people is an issue that has to do more with his own issues than the issues themselves.

ON EDIT: I also note that he does not originate any OPs there. That falls under another pattern I have noticed in the last 10 years I have been here. I call it the sniper. It is a defensive position in which you lurk in the shadows and then SNIPE when you spot a weakness that think you can rhetorically exploit. Such posters rarely have the courage to start an OP because it would expose them too much to the kind of sniping they themselves engage in.