People Love to Tell Others How to Live. Why?

Stephen
2 min readJan 21, 2024

Answer: To shape surrounding behaviour to mirror their ideals

People love to tell others how to live because nothing is more satisfying than shaping surrounding behaviour to mirror one's ideal. This ideal is often anchored in a series of strongly-held conclusions about how the world should run, and importantly — certainly annoyingly — about how one should run their life. Furthermore…

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