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Originally Posted by Lutiferre
I am more getting at the meaning at for example, a narcissist could be ignorant of what anyone would had to say about his opinions, out of arrogance and a self-view of superiority.
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Well OK, but it isn't really ignorance as in not knowing or living by a lie, but only something like being full of oneself. I say "only" because I think it is very much a matter of interpretation. For example, when Teddy Lucic was given the red card in the World Cup of football in 2006, the Italian referee Daniele de Rossi smiled as Lucic approached him with a complaint. The red card was fully warranted in my opinion, and as far as I'm concerned the referee was only doing his job in an impeccable manner. That he smiles when a player is complaining about an impeccable decision is not really relevant, and it doesn't even have to mean that the referee is full of himself, that he is a narcissist or anything like that.
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