Cruelty grows through small, rational choices that make power easier to preserve and other people easier to discard.
Cruelty grows through small, rational choices that make power easier to preserve and other people easier to discard.
Nietzsche’s The Antichrist was not written to identify a villain in the conventional sense. It was an intervention aimed at disturbing complacency. His target was not a person, but a reversal: a situation in which values publicly affirmed as moral, spiritual, or redemptive had become detached from the practices and dispositions they purported to sanctify. […]