What do you believe is the most subtle 'form' of arrogance?
Few of us can claim to have never boasted nor acted in some egotistic manner, this obviously being quite reasonable, a healthy sense of self-esteem is certainly a pleasant trait to possess and sometimes the enjoyment attained from such can become somewhat too evident. My inquiry however is what you believe to be the most subtle form of arrogance; what arrogant behaviour is overlooked due to being displayed with great slyness and precision? Is there arrogant behaviour that our entire species acts out every day and we have grown to disregard as being but a trivial factor in our lives? Are you personally behaving arrogantly at this moment without awareness of it?
What do you believe is the most subtle ‘form’ of arrogance friends?
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Believing a post online should have any kind of great effect on another person just because they will read it.
That or “My child is an honor student” bumper stickers. Take your pick.
I don’t know, but I’d know it if I saw it.
@TheDeadWake Are either particularly subtle?
@Facade Was that intended as a sincere or facetious comment?
The subtlest—and, yet most devastating—way to act arrogantly towards another person is to ignore them entirely. The person being ignored never knows if they’ve just accidentally been overlooked in passing, or if the person who ignored them simply considers them to be unworthy of such notice.
@Facade My apologies, I thought the statement may have been a sly yet witty joke.
How can you feel with such certainty that you would be aware of the most subtle form of arrogance if you witnessed it? Surely would noticing it not deduct from it’s subtlety considerably?
@ratboy Interesting. Could you elaborate please?
@MarshallO Ignorance is certainly a very subtle and manipulative form of arrogance. Rather funnily, it generally requires a keen mind to deliberately and effectively aggrivate others with it.
@Nially_Bob I’m pretty observant, but maybe you’re right.
perhaps the inability to ask a question?
assumptions?
Going about putting oneself down, or acting in a self-deprecating manner, in order to gain ego-boosting compliments from others. VERY well-hidden, looks like low self-esteem, but feels like being leeched of your affections if you know what to look for.
The difference between “self-assured” and “arrogant” is mostly in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. A person with low self-esteem will see self confidence as arrogance.
What @jo_with_no_space describes is an exception to this.
Probably the very subtlest form is the one that is only displayed inside our own heads. An internal feeling that “I am above that” or “I am a superior being”.
Or maybe that’s just what goes on inside my head…
The “I thought this would do you some good” attitude.
The subtlest form of arrogance is pretending to pay attention to what someone is saying when you are actually thinking of what you are going to respond with.
Modesty.
False modesty is the equivalent of arrogance.
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