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His family clearly supported him (based on a few other news outlets that actually interviewed them).
by jedc 15y ago
His family clearly supported him (based on a few other news outlets that actually interviewed them).
- wtn 15y agoHis family was enabling his narcissism.
- jedc 15y agoHaving actually known John in real life, I disagree with your description of him as a narcissist.
- samtp 15y agoSomeone doesn't have to be a complete narcissist to occasionally behave in a narcissistic manner. Hell, we all act narcissistically from time to time (some would even say all the time).
- CamperBob 15y agoHis family made a lot of money on that same narcissism, and derived a lot of security from it. Conversely, someone who can be talked out of climbing a mountain can also be talked into keeping his day job, and probably will be.
- gwern 15y agoSo? Are you seriously suggesting that if the family had disapproved of his mountain climbing, they would actually say so in a public interview? 'We're terribly upset and saddened and she'll never know her father, but while we're suffering in public, we'd like to mention that we were against the whole climbing thing in the first place. We told you so, John!'