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"What distinguishes the whistleblower's narcissism from that of the ordinary narcissist is that he  is wounded by the right thing: that he was cast into an environment of lies and deception and was expected to become like everyone else" (78-79).

( A narcissistic wound is anything that punches a hole in the self that your ego is struggling to make whole by pulling the world into it, defining itself over and against and through everything else in the world.)

"Why people act ethically is a far richer and more mysterious phonomenon than we know, and our first category should be wonder, not judgment. . . Not too many things will make a man or woman give up everything for his or her beliefs, but wounded narcissism is one."

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