How do I be less argumentative? I feel like I would be a lot

Become more happy in general. Then you won't bother to waste your energy on petty stuff. You aren't happy enough right now, which makes it easy for you to be in that hostile mindset. After all you could educate people without turning it into an aggressive argument.

>>18625819
It seems obvious but just stop yourself

When you see yourself getting argumentative the coolest* thing to do is just shut YOURSELF up.

>>18625819
>need to educate them
they're close enough to you intellectually that they don't need help from you. they're just willfully ignorant and don't want to be educated. this is why you should just not argue.

>>18625839
>Become more happy in general. Then you won't bother to waste your energy on petty stuff. You aren't happy enough right now, which makes it easy for you to be in that hostile mindset
I agree with this. In fact, it feels like a cycle I'm caught in: I'm unhappy, which makes me argumentative. But then I'm argumentative from my unhappiness, which makes me more unhappy, which makes me more argumentative, et cetera.

I need to find a way to break the cycle.

>>18625819

by shutting the fuck up. your issue is that you respond when they do something stupid, let them be stupid. you arent educating anyone cuz they still go make the same mistakes, otherwise it wouldn't be an argument, it'd just be advice.

let people live their lives, and even if you ARE right in a lot of cases, realize that in many cases you are biased towards your self and might be just as wrong as everyone else.

I feel you. People are pretty dumb.

Then again, I am pretty fuckin dumb sometimes. Come to think of it, so are you.

As it turns out, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Sounds like one of your personal strengths is identifying others' weaknesses. And one of your weaknesses is not knowing how to handle that.

Something I have figured out over the past couple years is when someone has their head up their ass about something, instead of taking the argumentative "no, you're wrong, I am right, let me tell you how it is" approach, try asking questions that make them justify their position. Offer them a counterargument and ask them to pick it apart. Be cool about it and don't interrupt or call names. They'll be more likely to learn something, and you probably will too.