Appropriate Requital

Nietzsche's understanding and reference to the concept of requital in the essay "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" In On the Genealogy of Morality is key to understanding his notion of slave morality; the manner, style and ethic behind one's requital of the behaviour of others is what distinguishes the noble-minded from those in resentment-mentality.

This poem is a little attempt to capture this notion.


Appropriate Requital
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So yeah some guy did some thing to you and you're telling me now
I'm totally happy to listen, i'd do the same
But really, do you think you remain in the right? How?
Do you think he's complaining in the same inane way?
Or perhaps do you feel you should have - or still ought to - act?
The means by which you ask me to measure or condone your intentionally
Are far from exact.

Is it not then perhaps the case,
that given your position now, and its rather neglible effect on time and space,
That even such action as your current complaining is the very thing you sought?
And there is quite an interesting thought;
Did you want to complain about that thing
before or after its happening?
I await your retort.