[kj] OT: Competition?

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Nietzsche is not one to go to for consistency. He did say "Was mich 
nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker" = "What does not kill me makes me 
stronger," and espoused, at times, a very hard-hearted selfishness that 
spat upon socialism and Christianity and two types of herd philosophies 
that appealed to the weak who were resentful, envious, losers at life, 
and who clung to them to ruin the successful folks' good time.

Yet he also warned people to avoid the kind of character type he seemed 
to extol when he said, "Beware those in whom the desire to punish is 
strong." His writing doesn't form a cohesive system, and I think he was 
against such things.

Also, the Proudhon quote I used isn't "out of context." Proudhon was a 
socialist, and was pointing out the irony that when folks compete, 
someone wins, the other loses, and then ends the competition. On a mass 
scale, like in business, the losers go out of business, and one is left 
with monopolies -- according to his ideas. So I wasn't quoting him "out 
of context" at all. It was an accurate quote.

-Oliver

The Exorcist wrote:

> Jaaaa, I think we had a few emails discussing it when I first started 

> using it.

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