Thread: What is morality? It's not about being inoffensive to everybody.

I don't agree Nietzsche was trying to objectify morality. To objectify it means to try to write a morality handbook, which many have attempted to do, but he wasn't one of them. He simply broke it broadly into 2 distinct categories for analysis, and as far as I'm concerned his categories shed a lot of light on how morality works and how different groups of people use it to inform their worldview. His breakdown for instance sheds a lot of light on the thinking of politicians or anyone who wants to control the masses. Doesn't it make sense that they would want to promote a worldview in which the general population is meek and mild and sees compliance as a virtue, while those in power don't actually conform to the same view for themselves? Wolves in sheep's clothing, hoping the sheep don't see through their disguise.

The issues you've mentioned so far about morality seem to be very minor and only from an interpersonal perspective, nothing about morality as it affects political military or religious leaders and their followers. Also, your points all seem to be written entirely from within the slave morality perspective - do unto others etc... this utterly fails to take into consideration those who believe they have the right to do TO others whatever they believe is in thier best interest, or that it's perfectly acceptable, since they're in power, to do what's in their own best interests and whatever the idiots don't know won't hurt them.

I think you need to expand your horizons on issues of morality to include these situations as well. The problem with saying "everyone should be nice to everyone else" is that you're making yourself a slave to anyone who doesn't feel that way and is willing to take advantage of that attitude. Self-made slaves are very easy to push around, and if there's a prevailing worldview they all subscribe to that says "turn the other cheek" then someone who wants to abuse the system doesn't even have to work hard to deprive those people of their rights, they've already done it for them.