1. Morality and Government "Athenians. For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences- either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us- and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although …
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…its own agenda without direct involvement. The extreme narcissism and egoism exhibited by those controlling nation-states creates a dichotomy - whether to accept that society as an equal and forgo exploiting it or to continue to recognize its supposedly "lesser" existence in the grand scheme of the world. For Sartre, the issue is that western society attempts to take the most appealing components of each incompatible route, and assimilate them for its own selfish motivations.