Legendarily bad gun take
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Nietzsche's slave mentality on full display here. The left can't reconcile the perfectly coherent set of principles that underlie the fundamental concept that your safety is your own responsibility, and that you shouldn't be able to force the responsibility on others to try to make you feel safe.
You don't get to tell other people what they have to wear on their face or put in their body because you're afraid of a virus. You don't get to tell other people they can't have guns because you're afraid of guns. You do get to own guns so that you can protect yourself and your family from things that threaten them.
Outsourcing the responsibility for your safety to the government not only amounts to surrendering your rights and freedoms, and forcing everyone else to give away their freedoms, but it also in the long run will make you objectively less safe. But the alternative is taking responsibility, and they just can't stand that.
Nietzsche was right on many things, which is why its a shame why everyone gets his philosophy so terribly wrong.
Its pretty telling that the people you find citing him most are edgy atheists and nihilists when he despised both atheism and nihilism.
"God is dead" was a lamentation, not an exhaltation.
The lines that follow "God is dead" in his writing, if anyone is interested in them and doesn't know them:
Exactly. At first I hated Nietzsche, because I didnt understand him.
His criticisms of Modernist Christianity are also spot on, though he didnt distinguish it from proper Christianity because proper Christianity was dead in Germany by that time.