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user-inactivated  ·  3622 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Great personal growth cannot be accomplished without hardship? Hardship makes a person better?

Who would you this is a better person:

A person who was poor but became rich through constant work and putting aside what they want right now for something later

or

A person who was rich because parents gave them money.

Most people would probably admire and give more credit to the person that suffered and worked for their material fortune.

None of this addresses inequality in society. But it doesn't pretend to do that, either.

And so what ... Nietzsche was an asshole. When did ad hominem attacks say anything about a person's rhetoric? When did that become the standard for judging ideas?





req  ·  3621 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Neither are necessarily better given your descriptions. Bboth can be weak people, both can be strong people.

To think the rich and successful are necessarily strong is a mistake.