Ego is a failure of humility. Difficulty distinguishing between humility and humiliation. A narrowing view of reality that conflates and thereby impoverishes. Conflation of weakness and vulnerability, of inadequacy and fallibility, of self and others.

Ego cowers easily to foreclose against the threat of slights and criticism. It strikes preemptively to assume the dominant position. So much to avoid denigration. Aversion to humiliation is not so condemnable. The problem is how broadly humiliation is defined.