Why do narcissists avoid accountability? #shorts

Why do narcissists avoid responsibility and accountability? Why do they blame shift, accuse others of doing the very things they do themselves?

"Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world’s fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others. "– M. Scott Peck, M.D.