Thats what makes it a defensive prompt.
A casual narcissist would dismiss a conversation if they had lost it, deflecting the content and instead going for a win by “decorum”.
For someone who ties it to their own self-worth however, they cant do it because they would have to admit in the process to themselves that they had lost.
Defensive coping mechanisms are the ones which are usually the most compulsory of them all, because the individual cant admit the fact of the matter to themselves.
Thats also probably the one which sucks the most. It takes an immense mental and psychological toll on the individual, so they usually end up like this, a self-contradicting mess that disregards even basic logic, because they cant afford to adhere to it.
