Pity v. Pity

The primary theme of #225 of Beyond Good and Evil is a defense of the constructive value of Pain, which includes Nietzsche's important thesis that by attempting to eliminate Pain, Christian Pity is health-threatening.  However, he superimposes on that thesis the ascription of it to what he calls "converse pity", creating a confrontation that he characterizes as "pity versus pity".  In the process, he leaves as a riddle the precise target of Converse Pity, which could be any of three possibilities--1.  the victims of Christian Pity, who are deprived of an opportunity to grow; 2. the advocate of Christian Pity, who, likewise, is stuck in a condition of arrested development; or, 3. the advocate of Converse Pity, for whom the painful experience of observing Christian Pity can be strengthening.  In any case, Nietzsche's real, stronger, opponent in this theme is Spinoza, who rejects both the thesis that 'Pity' is ambiguous, and that it is a 'good'.  Once again, a methodical treatment of a problem can be more powerful than a merely provocative one, which may have no more than a temporary impact, and may ultimately only breed confusion.