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The Problem with Narcissists...

...is that they (we?) think everyone else is a narcissist. The problem isn't me. It's everyone else. Consider this example: Imagine you enter a building and get on an elevator bound for the tenth floor. And someone else gets in and presses the button for the second floor. You begin a process of silent rage, cursing them for adding an additional stop to your elevator trip, just one short flight of stairs above where they got on. I'll admit that the feeling of annoyance passes through me. I'll also admit that this is a wrong feeling. It's a public elevator, and thus everyone has the same rights to use it as I have. If someone wants to use the elevator to go up one flight, what's it to me? By what moral authority do I judge him or her? Plus, the elevator stop will add only 30 seconds to my trip...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).