Lambs and Birds- Good and Evil

In the second half of essay, Nietzsche explains how the strong should be in power. Yet, Christianity and Judaism have led us to believe that the strong should suppress their strength and the characteristics that are weak shall be celebrated. The weak Christians and Jews have made the strong feel guilty therefore the weak win. Despite the fact that the stronger individuals cannot control their instincts they are forced to suppress them or else they will be look upon as bad by society. Nietzsche’s response to the stronger oppressing their natural instincts, and the weak winning is simply “this is absurd.” He claims that it is only natural for the stronger one to win; however the fact that humans have language has corrupted us. He uses the example of lambs and birds of prey. The lambs consider the birds of prey evil because they kill the lambs, and Nietzsche thinks that is normal. Since the lambs see everything about the birds of prey as evil, they find their traits to be good. Although the birds of prey do not see the traits of the lamb as good nor do they dislike them, in fact the birds of prey probably love the lambs because they taste good. Yet as Nietzsche says it would be irrational to stop this natural occurrence. “The strong man is free to be weak and the bird of prey to be a lamb- for thus they gain the right to make the bird of prey accountable for being a bird of prey” (45). After this argument Nietzsche continues to bash the Judeo-Christian religion. He believes that in order to believe these religions you must believe in a pretend world. They have to wait to be rewarded instead of reap the rewards immediately (Nietzsche finds this concept of waiting to be ridiculous.) Finally Nietzsche quotes the example of Dante’s Hell saying that if everyone is made by god with love and Dante was evil, everyone was created with eternal hate as well. Nietzsche does not think we should go against nature; we should simply adhere to our natural instincts.