Hey Jeanist. You're pretty chill and you raise good points. I also really fucking hate the tendency for people to pathologize others for the smallest reasons or conflicts. I'm sorry that's the behavior I've invoked with my comment.

I definitely don't intend to justify that because I hate that too, especially the way we even conceptualize NPD within the DSM.

I would just like to say here that I don't have a better term to describe the "cultural narcissism" that we're raised in here in America. That's literally what it is, not NPD just traits what we typically associate with it but as cultural values. I would like to use a better term to describe it but the closest things I've heard could be "Magical determinism" but that's something different. Or "Toxic individualism" but I just made that one up and it doesn't seem quite salient. Do you live in America and would you recommend any better term to describe this specific thing? If you want to PM about it too I'm down to talk about this at length without spectators.