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I. Bentham\u2019s Bulldog

Blogger \u201cBentham\u2019s Bulldog\u201d recently wrote Shut Up About Slave Morality.

Nietzsche\u2019s concept of \u201cslave morality\u201d (he writes) is just a dysphemism for the usual morality where you\u2019re not bad and cruel. Right-wing edgelords use \u201crejection of slave morality\u201d as a justification for badness and cruelty:

When people object to slave morality, they are just objecting to morality. They are objecting to the notion that you should care about others and doing the right thing, even when doing so doesn\u2019t materially benefit you. Now, one can consistently object to those things, but it doesn\u2019t make them any sort of Nostradamus. It makes them morally deficient, and also generally philosophically confused.

The tedious whinging about slave morality is just a way to pass off not caring about morality or taking moral arguments seriously as some sort of sophisticated and cynical myth-busting. But it\u2019s not that in the slightest. No one is duped by slave morality, no one buys into it because of some sort of deep-seated ignorance. Those who follow it do so because of a combination of social pressure and a genuine desire to help out others. That is, in fact, not in any way weak but a noble impulse from which all good actions spring.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzschean\xa0