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I see people through this "they are a narcissist" label at anyone doing anything they don't like.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is actually a very rare neurological disorder. It develops in childhood through a lack of self-regulation properly developing in one domain, which has a domino effect of negatively impacting the regulation of a second and so on. Due to the impact on pro social domains, this affects an individual's ability to empathize and properly form bonds, to such a deep level that the affected individual cannot produce certain chemicals that a neurotypical will excrete during a bonding process. This is why they can very easily discard. As a result of this lack of self-regulation in multiple domains, the individual may be assessed to exhibit enough personality traits present on the "cluster b" spectrum in order to be diagnosed with it.

Again, it is a very rare condition. The brain of the affected individual developed their neural networks during childhood in a disordered way. Not everyone who ever does anything you don't like is a "narcissist". It would be like calling anyone you like "bipolar", or "schizophrenic". I'm sure you'd appreciate not being called schizophrenic.
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Dainbramadge · 56-60, M
People are like dogs with a bone when it comes to catch phrases.
Look at the Russian bot thing.
Man after the news reported 1 incident of bots being used for a political agenda everyone who disagreed with another was a Russian bot. LOL
They actually thought that Russian bots were people or something. LOL
They would literally call you a bot and wait for a response. LOL
Oh and don't even get me started on the "CATFISH" epidemic. LOL
Therealsteve · 31-35, M
@Dainbramadge For sure! That is a different phenomenon entirely, though. What you are describing is the tendency for the human brain to oversimplify things. We have brains evolved to sufficiently understand around one-hundred people - the size of a tribe. Any more is just too much, understandably. And so we try to turn whole swathes of society into a single person with its own set of beliefs "the left says this", "the right that", "christians do this", despite describing millions upon millions of people all with their own thoughts. We also like narratives, again it simplifies things in our mind, the religions of old did it with mythology to explain complex ethical issues, and nowadays we do it too, just today I saw someone say "why are Americans obsessed with Japan?" Yes, all 342m Americans are obsessed with Japan.
Dainbramadge · 56-60, M
@Therealsteve I got stuff to add but ... where do you get your background? Opps.
If I may ask ... where do you draw this information from? LOL
I studied a little marketing and they exploit the hell out of two things you mentioned.
That's why I ask.