Self-righteousness is inseparable from narcissism because it requires superiority and lacks empathy. An exercise zealot who refuses to comfort his crying sister illustrates the type: someone so convinced of his standards that he dismisses everyone else's struggles.
Is it possible to be self-righteous and not be a narcissist? I don't think you can ever be self-righteous and healthy. Because I think if you're self-righteous, you're like, I'm better than you. Right? So you'll even see self-righteous narcissism in some of these kinds of exercise zealots who are like, I wake up at 4:00 a.m. and then I milk my goat and I make a smoothie and then I do a thousand crunches and run 10 million miles and then I work and then I journal and then I this and I sleep at eight o'clock and I'm like, What are you talking about? Like, is there no other human being in your life? Like, how do you deal with a crying sister? I tell her to go to hell and I drink more goat milk. You know, I mean, it's that, that can be sub, and the reason I'm in shape and I'm gonna live to be 179 years old is because I do all this and you don't, you lazy, awful person. That's self-righteous. Lacking compassion, lacking understanding, lacking awareness. It's lack of awareness of others. So that self-righteousness is sort of where the lack of empathy sits, right?
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