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whatever the powerful impose on him.
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And this is seen by the original nihilists as a good thing.
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What's his name, Nietzsche, of course,
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said, "Some of us are better than others.
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Some of us are supermen,
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and it is quite wrong and wicked for us
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to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows,
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and therefore do not tie us down
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with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals,
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and other things which are simply the weapons
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by which the weak hold down the strong."
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This was an interesting idea, but it wasn't new.