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# Correctness can become a dominance instrument when...
> Correctness can become a dominance instrument when being right is used to make another person smaller. Truth remains indispensable, but truthfulness loses its civic purpose when knowledge is displayed primarily as a license to humiliate.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Identity Beyond Confidence and Social Agreement — Part 2 - Workbook|Identity Beyond Confidence and Social Agreement — Part 2]]
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“Correctness can become a dominance instrument when being right is used to make another person smaller. Truth remains indispensable, but truthfulness loses its civic purpose when knowledge is displayed primarily as a license to humiliate.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-correctness-become-dominance-primarily-license-humiliate
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