Nietzsche – God and Selfishness
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Nietzsche – God and Selfishness
If Nietzsche is correct and there is no God and selfishness and apathy for others is the proper characteristic for humans, then I don’t think that human beings could be limited in anything since there will be no one supreme being to control good and evil. Christianity teaches that being selfish is a vice and that God does not advocate such, God wants us to be selfless and kind sharing with the less fortunate what we have in abundance. In the event therefore that God does not exist or is dead, humans would not adhere to such as it is the human nature to be selfish and therefore, without God, there is no order and without order, there is no limitation for humans. The law of natural selection would, therefore, take its due course in the sense that everybody would be pulling on their sides and this implies that only the strongest would survive. The bible teaches against killing and the absence of God, therefore, means there are no such teachings to guide morality and thus people will as well kill to survive. The weak will no longer have an opportunity to survive.
I think that Nietzsche is correct in his assessment of human beings that they are ultimately selfish with stronger exploitation of the weak and rising to the top. However, this does not apply to all the humans, there is a certain percentage who are extremely selfish and would do anything to acquire power. According to Nietzsche, his recordings implies that “to be a human is to be a beast and to be a superior beast, they have to attack, suppress, control, subjugate and exploit the weak beasts”. Dominance is the key in the land of beasts as it enables them to control the other population. There are other beasts that also wants to take control but they have to fight for the dominance. It is true and the same applies to people in that individuals exploit others in pursuit of happiness. Most of them are happy seeing others suffering.
In another recording, Nietzsche says that “utility cannot account for a person that is better than the other, and the better person’s happiness”. The statement is true for the general welfare of the people because an individual surviving on the welfare don’t get better as the overreliance on the welfare weakens an individual. The strong will remain to be strong while those depending on the welfare remain to be weak. The society becomes a man eat man society where the strong prey on the weak as there are no avenues to protect them. The interests of the strong are deemed to be right and therefore oppression to the poor for dominance and control as well is right according to Nietzsche assessment.
