Dr. J. Budziszewski

It can't.

Now, of course, you can use a kiss to betray.

But the only reason that using a kiss is so effective at betrayal is that it means something else.

And the reason we find it so disgusting is precisely because it's contrary.

That it does mean that.

Yeah.

You know, I can't slap somebody in the face and say, this means I love you.

Be well and prosper.

Be well.

Yeah, well, I think that if you don't need to read Nietzsche, that the aversion to reading him is not a bad thing.

Do you mind if I smoke?

No, it's okay.

Okay.

um but tell me but i mean maybe make a steel man case for nietzsche because i find too often christians are too quick to dismiss all right all right it is it this is not something i i would expose younger people to somebody wrote me and said i'm a i'm a high school teacher and i teach i teach a little bit of philosophy to my to my students at this catholic school should i expose them to nietzsche should i expose them to nihilism one of my fellow teachers says i have to because they're going to meet it in the broader culture

and they need to have some exposure or they're just going to fall down like 10 pins.

Well, there was something to that.

Oh, I'm sorry to know it.

That's very similar to something that I'd said to her.

I said, it would be like teaching your children sexual ethics by having them watch pornography and then saying, now this illustrates what's wrong with that.

Nietzsche has to be studied, and this would be my strongman case for studying him, I guess, not for Nietzsche himself.