Nietzsche contends that it is those who are necessarily isolated, not having compromised their own experience in order to concede to a concept which is more communicable and common, are noble in being uncommon. Those who are common have the advantage of feeling the comfort of relating to those around them. This comfort, however, comes at the cost of reconciling ones experience with others. In doing so, one becomes less genuine, and more herd-like...Nietzsche sees the herd as dishonest; he sees dishonesty as rampant in our plebian age. It is more difficult, and more admirable, to choose the road less traveled, as people tend to deny their nature and to compromise their more individual values and experience in favor of placing ones will on a par with that of someone else (BGE, Section 259).
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