I think he was just another guy like us, who came up with ways that helped him deal with his own life:
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Ellis had exaggerated fears of speaking in public and during his adolescence he was extremely shy around women. At age 19, already showing signs of thinking like a cognitive-behavioral therapist, he forced himself to talk to 100 women in the Bronx Botanical Gardens over a period of a month. Even though he did not get a date, he reported that he desensitized himself to his fear of rejection by women.
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From: Wikipedia
It is hard for me to get too upset at what sort of person he became after reading that? He obviously had a hard childhood with little nurturing so it makes sense to me that he came up with a non- even anti-nurturing psychological philosophy.