Scott Alexander has recently been talking about Nietzsche, and I wonder if this comment is more a response to his doing so than the present essay. I'm not sure that it collapses down neatly-enough to this to just say Gabe here is purely making a reference to master/slave morality. The elephant-in-the-brain-style unintentional dishonesty with oneself is more interesting than discussing Nietzsche with people on the internet for the one thousandth time, but now that you mention it, it's fun to connect the two.
Yep, the popularity of Slave morality is unbelievable
Scott Alexander has recently been talking about Nietzsche, and I wonder if this comment is more a response to his doing so than the present essay. I'm not sure that it collapses down neatly-enough to this to just say Gabe here is purely making a reference to master/slave morality. The elephant-in-the-brain-style unintentional dishonesty with oneself is more interesting than discussing Nietzsche with people on the internet for the one thousandth time, but now that you mention it, it's fun to connect the two.
If I had to think in terms of master vs slave morality about "Weak people also have obligations and these obligations should be clear"...
Then it goes counter to slave morality.
But it is _alien_ to master morality, that is self-centred and about strength.
I haven't read Nietzsche or those posts from Scott, it's just something I've been thinking about lately