What bad things have you seen that have resulted because of someone's pride?

My father not going to the doctor when necessary because Armenian men aren’t supposed to ‘ask for such things’ and just have to be uber-manly resulting in a pretty advanced cancer of the colon when he finally could no longer ignore bleeding out of his body

My step-son refusing to contact us because we co-signed on his electric bill: he defaulted, leaving us to pay $900, and then he skipped out of his apartment in the middle of the night. We told his wife we forgave him, but he has refused to ever contact us back.

My friend’s husband abruptly quit his job because he couldn’t stand the wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant who wrote him up for “sitting in an insubordinate fashion,” thereby giving up a terrific job that he loved. Even though the lieutenant’s boss asked him to rescind his resignation, my friend’s husband refused due to pride, putting both of them in a precarious financial position.

My neighbor got mad at his boss and resigned his job two years short of getting his pension. Even though his boss also asked him to rescind his resignation he refused, putting his family in a precarious financial position and leading them to move 200 miles away so his wife could support the family.

There are many more examples of this sort of stupidity.

Desert Storm and the present Iraq war, both started by one of the Bush boys, George and George.

@Zendo should we have sat here while terrorists attacked our country? I dont think thats a very good example.

better than attacking a totally unrelated country for made up reasons and sacrificing thousands of lives for nothing.

@willbrawn The initial debacle involving Iraq began with Bush’s daddy and their family friend,Sadam Hussein. There had as yet been no terrorist attacks on Mainland USA.
The whole deal involving Kuwaiti oil was a scam to steal Kuwait’s oil.
Bush Sr. is first and foremost an oil man. This has very much to do with pride, as does the later Bush’s continued attacks in that region, forcing those people to become terrorists and to attaclk the USA. We have created our own enemy, once again..

not to mention that our friend osama was trained by the CIA to fight the soviets in afghanistan.

@ragingloli And which Bush once was the herr Direktor of the CIA? Osama of course being another family friend who has supped with the Bushes in Texas. Sadam was another.

A co-worker that pretended to be fairly well-off refused to drop the lie and admit that she needed help. Everyone knew her mother was extremely wealthy and wanted others to think the same of her. When things started to go bad, she refused to ask for help. She was so far in debt and even owed the company we worked for, money. (They were starting to garnish her wages.) Her mother called to see if I could help pack her stuff, she was in so far over her head, the bank foreclosed on her condo. She lost everything.

I have a friend who refuses to let his parents pay for his bills even though they can afford it and want to do so. He feels guilty that his folks have money and he doesn’t want to use it. As it is, he is severely in debt to them and has student loans. He was only just able to get a job after over a year of looking.

good friends burning bridges/family members avoiding each other like plague

nearly every politician ever is a wonderful example of this. (;
a lot of things people have known are better than what they are proposing have been bypassed, simply to uphold their reputation, and try to raise morale for their own bad ideas.