book iii ruminations on the ontology of morality chapter 26 fait accompli : traces of values in lieu of morality in abstentia and of that witnessed in the state of nature , and that outside of it , society , sublimating most selfish impulses while exacerbating others ( the instinct to attack , for example , superseded to some degree under most circumstances by the practical consideration of exploiting others in the division of labor , a restraint imposed for the comforts to be had by the majority in enhanced products and services and only to be achieved in some level of civil harmony , even though subjecting those without commercial skills to perish miserably in the streets and perceived vaguely in the minds of other higher animals able to do so as hedonists sabotaging the ecosystem with their one-specied pleasure dome ) , this , and only this , is vacuously referred to as morality as an average frenchman considers his culinary creation to be picasso on a plate .