“It is often difficult for many people to discern when deceit is evident, or if what is said or being done is morally sound, due to an inner conflict involving self-esteem.

Sometimes self-righteous people are so busy looking at the outward appearances of people and situations, using only their eyes, that they lean towards what they feel is beneficial to themselves, ignoring what could seriously affect their lives and/or the lives of others, in the physical, mental, or morally sound areas.

Self-pity lacks not just self-esteem, but in its very essence, it tends to magnify what everyone else has, what everyone else does, eliminating hope, and emphasizing a constant feeling and physical appearance of failure. Both of these are like quicksand, and in many ways, more deadly than any area wherein quicksand might possibly be.

Self-righteousness and self-pity can be compared to finding one’s self in the Everglades, very little chance of survival.”