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Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker by youalreadyknow on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:56PM (#16422915)
This is the milquetoast interpretation of Nietzsche to make him digestible for the mainstream.
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Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker by nwah1 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:57PM (#16425059)
Yea, he wished suffering on his friends, to forge them into beings worthy of respect. Etc. He did have an aggressive and elitist perspective. Ayn Rand's views are a decent comparison.
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