That's interesting. I'm reading Thus Spake Zarathustra right now and noticing a couple things that don't exactly jive too well with our rationalist paradigm here. Still, I didn't expect a comment like this to be downvoted this much based on what I've read from Nietzsche so far.
Is it mostly because of the antisocial tone of this comment, or is it Nietzsche himself that caused the downvotes?
Is it mostly because of the antisocial tone of this comment, or is it Nietzsche himself that caused the downvotes?
I didn't vote on the grandparent comment, but I probably would've downvoted it if it wasn't already far into the negatives, because it gives advice that would be terrible and destructive. While there may be an interpretation of
Practice exercising your will, over yourself at first, then over your pets, your friends, family, co-workers and so on into the larger world
which is reasonable, the naive default interpretation of this, and the one...
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