Nietzsche uses the metaphor of eagles hunting lambs to argue that lambs inventing the concept of 'free will' to blame eagles for hunting is absurd, because it is in the nature of eagles to hunt and lambs to be hunted—thus moral blame and praise require freedom, but freedom may be an illusion slaves invented to blame the powerful.
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“moral blame moral praise requires you to have been able to do otherwise it requires the idea of free will but of course it's in the nature of the eagle to hunt and it's in the nature of the Lamb to be hunted”
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