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Originally Posted by THEINCREDIBLEdork
Insight into your own behavior and motives is shitty. Most assholes don't know they are assholes. Most selfish bastards don't know they are selfish bastards. And if they do they color it in their own minds in a better way. Like a truly cheap person might believe they are discerning.
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Off topic, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this, ID. Introspection is there for a reason...for self realization and the motivation to change, or stay, or whatever. Just because someone is an asshole doesn't mean they don't know it, that's a ridiculous notion. I'm sure lots of people are the way that they are and just don't realize it for lack of caring/thinking about it, but to say that it's impossible for ANYONE to realize how they are and make a conscious decision to continue acting that way or to change it (which is what your post implied) is just plain inaccurate.
EDIT: Also, in regard to "Insight into your own behavior and motives is shitty", I agree that to some point we tend to be subjective, as it's almost impossible not to be, but that doesn't mean that we just take that view as gospel. Intelligent people are able to recognize that their views may be subjective, and henceforth combine their personal introspection with the opinions and views of others, giving a combination of subjective and objective views, and since neither can be wholly 100% true (except in your seemingly definite attitude that society's view = absolute truth) the person makes possibly the best (and most accurate because of it's eclectic nature) judgment of their own personal behavior.