A nontraditional idea in Nietzsche’s criticisms of morality is the thought that certain moral notions, such as pity, increase suffering. Nietzsche comes to this conclusion in a manner that is straight to the point. He argues that if one pities those beneath them, such as the slave in his example of slave and master morality, pity will become a moral “good” that one can only receive by suffering. In a modern-day analogy, someone might try to argue that donating to the homeless may harm them because, to obtain those same donations or charitable acts, one must suffer homelessness. Nietzsche writes, “On the other hand, those qualities which serve to make easier the existence of the suffering will be brought into prominence and flooded with