In my previous post, I talked about Lance Armstrong as a narcissist, and about how his greatest emotion in the Oprah interview came when he described confessing to his children. He instructed his son to no longer defend him; instead, his son was to tell people, “Hey, my dad said he was sorry.”
This struck me as extremely disturbing. It showed no insight on Lance Armstrong’s part about what he was teaching his children about the world. Apparently, we can bully people for years, destroy their reputations and our finances, and then just say sorry?
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I agree with a lot of what you say about Lance’s character. He certainly lacks empathy, sincere remorse, and the ability to be self-reflective. He’s a bully to the nth degree. God help his children who may follow his example.
But there is one thing no one can take away from him–he DID beat a highly metastasized cancer that had a high probability of killing him. That fight gave a great deal of hope to cancer victims who were also battling serious cancers. That never seems to be mentioned in critiques of the man. Maybe his narcissism drove him to fight the odds. Still there was no way he could fake his recovery.
The other factor no one seems to mention is how many high profile sports figures are also narcissistic and sociopathic/psychopathic. But Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens never started a charity to help fund services for those with a serious disease.