The Morality of a Slave

Nietz: If you're a slave, Rome doesn't care about you. Your master is allowed to kill you. Masters will kill their slaves at the drop of a dime on a whim for anything. Christ gives you a set of morals that you can adopt to survive in that setting. The aristocrats did not say they were going to be like lambs and treat our peasants like Christ. That's not what happened at all. They said fuck no we're not going to do that these are our fucking serfs. But I want to go to heaven. So I'm going to pay the church and indulgence to pray for my soul so I can spend my life treating my ser