Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
III: General Remarks on Morality§292 It amounts to a denaturalisation of morality to separate the action from the man; to direct hatred or contempt against “sin”; to believe that there are actions which are good or bad in themselves.
The re-establishment of “Nature”: an action in itself is quite devoid of value; the whole question is this: who performed it? One and the same “crime” can be in one case the greatest privilege and in another a stigma. As a matter of fact, it is the selfishness of the judges which interprets an action or its performer according to its utility or harmfulness to themselves ( — or in relation to its degree of likeness or unlikeness to themselves).