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Aggression in Healthy Minds vs. Narcissistic Minds
Being aggressive is enjoyable.
It’s enjoyable to win.
It’s enjoyable to beat others in sports and games.
Playing games and beating the machine is enjoyable.
It is enjoyable to defeat anybody or anything in a competition.
It’s wonderful when our team wins.
Aggression is the foundation of every sport, game, competition, contest, the Olympics, and cookery competitions.
The triumph of aggressiveness is the foundation of every victory.
However, two factors that control violence in a sound mind and heart are
morality or compassion
Empathy or the inclination to harmonize
Aggression remains in its playpen as long as conscience and the love of harmony are intact. It is placed in its proper location. We are the mistress of aggression, and it is our slave. For fun, we sometimes take it out on a leash before returning it to its enclosure.
In a healthy individual, aggression manifests itself.
Aggression acts like cancer in a diseased or unhealthy individual. It has gotten out of hand and is consuming all of the good tissue.
Aggression is the mistress and the slave in such a person.
As a result, every action that person does is an expression of aggressiveness, and every activity serves as a vehicle for it.
Narcissists are thus characterized by their excessive rivalry over trivial…