The Genealogy of Morals/Beyond Good and Evil(Friedrich Nietzsche)

 1. Beware of the disadvantages of groups.


Madness is rare in individuals. - But it is common in groups, parties, nations, and eras.

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No matter how smart and wise a person is, if he or she belongs to a group, his or her claims and essence can be distorted.

This is because people are social animals, and if most people raise their voices for a certain claim, the people in that group will try to say the same thing.

As scientific evidence for this, there is Asch's Consensus Experiment.

People agree with each other and are greatly influenced by their surroundings.

When everyone in a group speaks with the same argument, I think there will be few people who can stand apart and make different arguments.

Therefore, even if something is wrong, people agree and say it is the right answer, and even if something is wrong, because many people did it, responsibility is shifted or distributed, and while they are in a state of madness, they will not come to their senses and will eventually end up with many regrets at the end of the madness.

Therefore, I think that we should always be careful of groups and understand the nature and meaning of their arguments.

In the end, since humans pursue their own interests, if we think about why a group wants something, we can think about why they act in this way.

Do not think that your group is always right.

People should always think from the opposite perspective.

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2. Let's become proper people through learning.


Learning changes us.

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Learning is always necessary, and I think it is the most important thing in living life.

When we are born, we learn how to walk, how to speak, and about behavior, etiquette, and rules.

When we are in school, we learn to go to college, or to do well in arts and physical education.

At work, we learn about the rules and people of that workplace,

When we get married, we learn about our spouse, about childcare, and about our family.

Or, we can learn about our hobbies, or about the economy, real estate, etc.

When we get older, we learn about our children's education, life, and wisdom for living, and we also learn what we should do to leave good things for our children.

Or, like our parents, we may have to learn new platforms like smartphones.

Because we have learned, we live with less loss when we do something, and because we have learned, we can change our lives by doing new things.

We learn to do better,

to achieve better results,

to live happier lives.

That is, we should never abandon learning, turn away from it, or stop.

Our bodies weaken as we age, but our brains can produce better results based on the experiences and know-how we have accumulated over time if we continue to study even as we age.

Therefore, we must continue to learn, and we must also learn about ourselves.

I think that self-reflection is the most difficult problem.

Proper self-reflection will guide my life and give me a direction for what I should do.

Let's keep learning.

Humans were born to continue to learn, and I think it is difficult to live that life properly if we stop.



3. The best revenge is for me to become happy.


"Let's be good!

And a good person is one who does not insult, does not hurt anyone, does not attack, does not retaliate, leaves revenge to God, lives like us, hides himself, avoids all evil, and generally demands little from life, that is, one who is patient, humble, and fair like us."

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The best revenge, in my opinion, is to live happier than that person (the target of revenge).

Anyone can be hurt, intentionally or not, and some people can be hurt badly and dream of revenge on that person.

However, I am not sure if I will be happy afterward even if I succeed in getting revenge on that person.

Also, in order to get revenge, I can speed up my life, overdo it, or be greedy, which can make me more unhappy.

That is why I think the best revenge is to happily go my own way and become happier than that person.

Don't think that you are behind others, and I think it is best to find your own pace and act because it is your own life.

I hope you don't defile yourself with petty revenge.

If you do bad things because others did bad things to you, won't you become a dirty person like them?

Or even if that revenge is successful, someone else related to it may take revenge on you.

Then I think you will end up not being able to escape the shackles of that revenge.

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