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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by throwaway876123 on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:33PM (#20266119)
> Where did I get the idea that popular people were malevolent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by chongli on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:31PM (#20266781)
The general concept is much older than even Nietzsche. I would put it at least as far back as the account of Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic[1], a critique of Socrates' concept of justice:

I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by everdrive on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:51PM (#20266343)
Thanks, I've seen this idea espoused, but didn't realize it had a formal name, or originated with Nietzsche. I'll read further.
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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by pwodhouse on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:18PM (#20268597)
It's my older. Aesop published the gable of Sour Grapes.
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