Thread: why are we so obsessed with proving other people wrong and making ourselves look good?

Yes, you probably don't because you don't know what it actually is. A little bit is necessary for people to be successful in life, it helps them overcome people and different mental obstacles. Thinking you are better than everyone else and driving everyone else away is a bad thing, this is documented as NPD and is quite a bad mental disorder to have. People often say Hitler had NPD, you already know he took it to the extreme and said his whole race was better than everyone else's and look where that ended up. And you are right in saying that narcissism itself isn't a bad thing, but as you'll see A LOT online people take it to an extreme just because they can and they think they are right.

Wiki: The term "narcissism" was introduced by Havelock Ellis (later developed further by Freud in On Narcissism) after Narcissus who in Greek myth was a pathologically self-absorbed young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool.

The myth says Narcissus the Greek boy fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water, he stared at it in awe, at his own beauty for so long he fell so feeble and weak from no food he eventually fell in a drowned. Even the Greeks knew it was a bad thing if you had too much of it. Yes, I know it's a myth but it's a greatttt example. Hopefully you'll come up with more than a 1 liner argument next time

Originally Posted by Reclypso

Yes, you probably don't because you don't know what it actually is. A little bit is necessary for people to be "successful" in life, it helps them overcome people and different mental obstacles. Thinking you are better than everyone else and driving everyone else away is a bad thing, this is documented as NPD and is quite a bad mental disorder to have. People often say Hitler had NPD, you already know he took it to the extreme and said his whole race was better than everyone else's and look where that ended up. And you are right in saying that narcissism itself isn't a bad thing, but as you'll see A LOT online people take it to an extreme just because they can and they think they are right.

Wiki: The term "narcissism" was introduced by Havelock Ellis (later developed further by Freud in On Narcissism) after Narcissus who in Greek myth was a pathologically self-absorbed young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool.

The myth says Narcissus the Greek boy fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water, he stared at it in awe, at his own beauty for so long he fell so feeble and weak from no food he eventually fell in a drowned. Even the Greeks knew it was a bad thing if you had too much of it. Yes, I know it's a myth but it's a greatttt example. Hopefully you'll come up with more than a 1 liner argument next time

Fixed.