Scarcity from equal ability and shared desire makes any two men enemies.

Evidence

From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our Ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which neverthelesse they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their End, (which is principally their owne conservation, and sometimes their delectation only,) endeavor to destroy, or subdue one another” (ch. 13, 87; emphasis added). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 366

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sartre bases interpersonal conflict on the scarcity of shared worldly resources. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 641