Nietzsche and Morality (Part II)

As we had discussed in the last part on our Nietzsche thingy, morality becomes the deterrent for those acts considered immoral. As morality instills fear into the minds of the people by making them fear the punishments for immorality, this makes a moral person highly accessible to fear. This fear is what preserves the subjective order in the society.

We now build around those ideas today. As morality will bring about peace in the society (make no mistake about this fact: I have nothing against morality), this will also make it’s citizens more cowardly for they are accessible to fear.

The increase of the magnitude of cowardice in society will make it’s citizens more submissive to religious threats. This is because morality mostly comes from the religious doctrines that surely each religion has. Of course, the submission of people to the religious doctrines will be good for the society if the doctrines are beneficial to it’s wellness but as religious doctrines are mostly rooted in ancient teachings which never change (or very, very resistant to change, as the Roman Catholic Church demonstrates to us), this transformation of the society to be more compliant to religion will slow the development of the society as religious doctrines promote conservatism. Surely you will notice how the majority of religions advocate simplicity and the unifications of belief. If there are no deviations from the center, that is religion, how can new discoveries in the sciences, culture and human behavior be discovered?

Nietzsche also noted that morality makes worldly punishments more effective as deterrents and thus make people unaccustomed to pain. In highly civilized peoples at his time, Nietzsche remarks that punishments become highly superfluous deterrents. The mere fear of shame is enough to leave the immoral act undone. The refinement of morality goes together with the refinement of fear.

Thus, the life of the individual is reduced to living a life the society deems acceptable and proper and even to take pleasure in nothing except those that society proclaims pleasurable.