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Shut Up About Slave Morality - by Bentham's Bulldog

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“Oh, you think when you see a baby, you shouldn’t stick it in the blender, even when doing so would be funny or the baby is being annoying? Slave morality!” There’s a lot of discussion among many people, especially fans of Nietzsche and those on the right, of master and slave morality. Master morality is supposed to be the type of morality that reveres strength and dominance, toughness and power, while slave morality is that which champions the weak and appeals to the masses. It argues against forms of oppression and domination. As Erik Torenberg says: Prior to Christianity, value system and myths were all oriented around strength, excellence, and achievement — or Master Morality. Christianity flipped morality upside down and introduced Slave Morality: “The first shall be last, last shall be first.“ In other words, Christianity reordered values in western society from veneration of the strong (Master Morality) to veneration of the weak (Slave Morality) — from condemnation of the weak (

“Oh, you think when you see a baby, you shouldn’t stick it in the blender, even when doing so would be funny or the baby is being annoying? Slave morality!” There’s a lot of discussion among many people, especially fans of Nietzsche and those on the right, of master and slave morality. Master morality is supposed to be the type of morality that reveres strength and dominance, toughness and power, while slave morality is that which champions the weak and appeals to the masses. It argues against forms of oppression and domination. As Erik Torenberg says: Prior to Christianity, value system…

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