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this is a common misconception.


and while you are coming up with alot of cut and pastes you are missing the concepts entirely.

here's one back at you. this explains the development of "hate" and "evil"... now if you can apply it (using epistemology) it might be worth more than a cut and paste.

"Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil". This issuing of "blame" leads one to desire revenge, or at least believe in the possibility of revenge; this lust for revenge may take many forms, as in the Christian conception of the Last Judgment, or the socialist conception of revolution. In each case, a sense of powerlessness creates the illusion of an enemy; one suddenly conceives oneself to be oppressed rather than merely weak, a phenomenon that spawns externally-directed bitterness (lust for a perceived "revenge").


Ressentiment lies at the heart of much of Nietzschean thought, particularly in regard to Judaism and Christianity. Nietzsche believed that these religions stemmed from a desire to invert the natural order of the world, to establish the prevalence of weakness over strength. Judea's position of weakness in the Roman Empire was itself the origin of ressentiment, of the moral system that elevated pity (the weak) over vitality (the strong). The immense strength of the Roman Empire could not be overwhelmed in a physical sense; Judea's inferiority manifested as hatred for Roman rule. Judaism redefined the strength of the Roman Empire as evil, weak, or depraved, envisioning a wrathful God who would effect a revenge. "Jewish" weakness caused hatred for Roman overlordship, which was thus damned as evil, merely because it dared to be strong."


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