Nietzshce theorized that guilt and bad conscience gave rise to cruelty, to delight in seeing others burn in hell.
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Addendum: I was surprised that Lund never mentioned Nietzsche in her book; nor does she seem to in her blog or her tweets. He used empathy in a very strange way: To sniff out sentimentalism and weakness in others, and he had a robust admiration for the conscienceless Napolean, and for Faust.
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