Communication and Pity

While Communication may be one of the fundamental bases of social cohesion, its value is not unconditional--disease is spread by communication.  Likewise, Nietzsche conceives Pity as a disease, and, so, revalues it to a Vice, from a Christian Virtue.  However, his condemnation of Pity is not as dogmatic as his stridency seems to suggest.  For, in #293 of Beyond Good and Evil, he elaborates that "a man who is by nature a master--when such a man has pity, well, pity has value.  But what good is the pity of those who suffer? Or, those who, worse, preach pity?"  Analogously, the exposure to a disease of a well-fortified physician is essential to the treatment of it.  More generally, Communication has value only to the extent that it strikes a balance between unifying its relata, and maintaining a distance between them, i. e. without that distance, Communication itself is dissolved.