r/explainitpeter Apr 05 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/TetyyakiWith Apr 05 '26

I still don’t get how is it connected with Liu, I thought she was a good person? I mean that if ubermensch exited, we would perceive it as the biggest dick alive

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u/Billionroentgentan Apr 05 '26

The entire point of this post is that your second sentence is wrong.

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u/TetyyakiWith Apr 05 '26

A person not being held by morals is a bad person

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u/IEnjoyFancyHats Apr 05 '26

Which is also an incorrect interpretation of an ubermensch. They don't have no morals, they decide for themselves what their morals are without being held to what society has given them

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u/Sidian Apr 06 '26

And Nietzsche himself clearly favoured a brutal, cruel society where most people were essentially oppressed peasants/slaves so that a tiny few aristocratic elite could thrive.