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Why Nietzche's ideas can be so dangerous without the aid of proper context and perspective. They are very seductive to a certain type of young man. But the reality of human fallibility leads to terminal ressentiment in the end for anyone fixed in that philosophy. It is a total dead end.

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> But the reality of human fallibility leads to terminal ressentiment in the end for anyone fixed in that philosophy. It is a total dead end.

Could you elaborate a little bit? If you're going to disregard his thought with a broad stroke, you might as well

>Could you elaborate a little bit? If you're going to disregard his thought with a broad stroke, you might as well

I'm certainly not disregarding him. His work was (and is) important. But the reason it lives on is to serve as a cautionary tale. It saves you from taking a turn down that road which can be so appealing to precocious young minds who aren't aware of its' logical conclusions.

> its' logical conclusions

such as?

See the article. Nietzsche was driven to madness and died alone in an insane asylum.

If that's a "logical conclusion" as you said, then by what kind of logic exactly? I'm curious

By Nietzches logic (if you can call it that). The will to power is a completely unnatainable goal for the vast majority of people, by reason of circumstance. His philosophy offers nothing but a hollow sense of self importance for those of us subject to the whims of blonde beasts.

I wish your assertions had some substance to analyze or understand what you're thinking about.

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