[mikelyons]

It seems to express frustration at the difficulty of getting humans to come from selflessness when governing, and the bind that is created because of the inherently high stakes of politics. Coming from a place of selfishness in politics is the direction of "My group survives, 'their' group must be eradicated" and the mind has to make a distinction between what it considers part of its self-identity/group-identity, what what is 'the other'