Nietzschean conservativism: A brief dialog with John Ashcroft

Q: Mr. former Attorney General, would you be willing to be waterboarded:

A: "The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do"

Q: Indeed. Can you think of a less awkward way to phrase that?

A: Hmm.

Q: Friedrich Nietzsche famously claimed "That which does not kill us makes us stronger. "

A: Ah.

Q: Then again, he went insane.

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