Reading about "Master Morality" and "Slave Morality" makes me insane. Like, I can grasp the concepts in perspective, but it just seems so... asinine to define humanity in that way. I get that there are people out there that are total dicks and that don't care about anybody else, but to me, good and evil and good and bad are the same thing. I'm not sure if I'm just getting hung up on semantics or what.
Even the analogy that Nietzsche is using, I feel, does not really fit the observations, in my opinion. People are so much more complicated than sheep and hawks, and I feel that it does society, and ethics, a disservice to try to so neatly compact us into roles as "only predator" and "only prey" because that is so commonly not the case. The lamb has no choice in how to live, no choice in how to do much; the hawk has no choice in the same sense. But people? I mean, yeah, there's a caste system, but that doesn't mean we don't have the freedom to choose other things!
It's just really shaky grounds to me. I feel like this was something that Nietzsche was very strongly opinionated about, and I just can't see them as mutually exclusive ideas. I can't see it as "you're either the hawk OR the lamb" when our ability to choose necessitates that we can be either/or. I mean, I can accept it in Nietzsche's terms, through the lens of his definitions, but translating it to my beliefs, or seeing through my personal lens, it just seems so asinine and petty- and inaccurate. Which is funny, to me, because I tend to use petty differences as ground for philosophy; I love a good semantic argument.
I am seriously frustrated by this.
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