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☩🌲A Forest Rebel🌲☩'s avatar

An interesting trend I've observed online is that Nietzsche is being cooped by certain elements who argue that common criminals and gang members are actually far closer to being the warriors Nietzsche extols than his intellectual defenders today. They similarly argue in favor of Islam and of mass migration to Europe because, in their view, Islam is stronger and more warrior like than the European people. This, of course, bothers other Nietzscheans because they argue Nietzsche doesn't just support random violence and that there is "good" (life affirming, noble, whatever) violence and "bad" (resentful, low class) violence. Unfortunately for the Nietzscheans, I don't think their system does a great job at distinguishing between good and bad violence or even good and bad people since it focuses so strongly on power, will, might makes right, and so on. I think you speak to that in the latter part of this essay.

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