#25 - VANITY OF MIGHT

If memory serves, Nietzsche describes that there is no good or evil, only strength and weakness, and that the goal of man is strength. But this is false. Is a man with much power, who murders every man who crosses him and rapes every woman that attracts him, admirable? The answer is clearly not.

It is true that he is "great" in the sense of strength, but his being is lesser than that of a beast. For at least a beast only hungers to survive and naught else, but the tyrant's avarice knows no bounds, the world is his meal.

Power is only a means, not an end, and is thus meaningless without an end. It cannot be an end, for in of itself it lusts to infinitely grow, it needs to be reigned in by a man of superior temperance. A man of virtue, this is what is necessary. 

Weak, moral men are pitiful however, thus it is the duty of mighty, moral men to bring them to greatness. Every student needs his master, and we are not all born as mighty men, but as mewling babies. When they have attained power, it is thus necessary to ward off the evil ones with blind hearts. 

Weak, evil men are only disgracing themselves, but mighty, evil men are a threat who must be either converted or eradicated.