Nietzsche asserts that whether viewed as evil or good human beings are engaged in what they perceive to be the conservation of the species. This is not out of love for his kind but simply because there is nothing more unconquerable than instinct. Human beings appear predisposed to divide individuals we encounter into those that are helpful [good] and hurtful [evil]. Yet such a binary approach fails to recognize that even the most hurtful individual can be the most useful in how they awake impulses that have languished and decayed in others. All that is hurtful belongs to the "economy of conservation" a costly an injurious economy.
One might then question is it possible to live "badly"? To live either well or badly; one is probably still the benefactor of mankind in one way or another and will have admirers and critics. Yet even your critics who confront you with your moral deficiencies cannot lead you to adopt a positive state of mind toward the negation of your being. [N uses laughter as an expression of, and an affirmative response to, the negation of "being."; comedy for N is a special way for which tragic situations might avoid a negative state of mind]. But is a positive state of mind then possible? Given all humanity has adopted the view that "the species is everything; the individual nothing", once the door is open for all to choose to live badly then joy might be united with wisdom ["Joyful wisdom"].
One might then question is it possible to live "badly"? To live either well or badly; one is probably still the benefactor of mankind in one way or another and will have admirers and critics. Yet even your critics who confront you with your moral deficiencies cannot lead you to adopt a positive state of mind toward the negation of your being. [N uses laughter as an expression of, and an affirmative response to, the negation of "being."; comedy for N is a special way for which tragic situations might avoid a negative state of mind]. But is a positive state of mind then possible? Given all humanity has adopted the view that "the species is everything; the individual nothing", once the door is open for all to choose to live badly then joy might be united with wisdom ["Joyful wisdom"].
But for now it is still the time of tragedy, morals and religions. We are presented with hero's of an ideal that take centre stage. All things cater to the needs of the ideal with some devotee's appointed to be valets, others salespersons. These teachers of design (often oblivious to the fact that they) also work for the conservation of the species in that they believe in life and consider it worthwhile. This impulse that rules the most noble and ignoble will try to make us forget that it is just impulse; so that that which happens without intervention appears to be done by intervention. Mankind might have been ruined at any moment had any one system of ethics got the upper hand.
But as each came and fell mankind was changed by the unrelenting progression of teachers of the design of existence to become a visionary animal. The new condition of human life is that man must know why he exists and he cannot flourish without the belief in reason in life.
