@KevinSimler did you ever figure out the provenance of the become-good thing? Just struck me that it is the evil twin sentiment of the sjw admonition to "do better". Something something aspiring martyr vs preaching victim.
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For some reason the phrase has IDW overtones for me... not sure if I'm just hearing accidental tonal resonances or whether there's a zeitgeist entanglement there
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My (idiosyncratic!) reading of On the Genealogy of Morals is as a transition from virtue ethics to rule-based ethics as society grows more complex. One could interpret these sorts of "become good" phrases as a nostalgia for virtue ethics? 1/
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I thought it was a
@Grognor thing originally but I haven't been around long enough to know for sureThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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