Pathos of Distance

According to Nietzsche, the act of Evaluation entails a "pathos of distance", i. e. a feeling of superiority.  Now, while in #257 of Beyond Good and Evil, he presents such a sense of Mastery as a psychological phenomenon derived from the Will to Power, in I,2 of the Genealogy of Morals he asserts its priority as a political fact, i. e. as an expression of a primordial Master class.  Accordingly, 'Slave' Morality can be interpreted as either a Psychological or a Political phenomenon, but with differing implications for his critique of it.  On the one hand, if it is a Psychological condition, then its value utterances are merely mechanical reactions to feelings of pleasure or of displeasure, e. g. Emotivism, in which case it lacks the capacity for detachment that constitutes true acts of Evaluation.  On the other hand, if is a Political condition, then it is an historically contingent one that does not preclude the possibility of the possession of Psychological strength sufficient for the expression of Mastery via such true acts of Evaluation.  In other words, Nietzsche's challenge to Slave Morality compromises a more profound Psychological diagnosis, i. e. that it lacks the capacity to judge, with a contingent Political accusation, i. e. that its Egalitarian, non-Egoist judgments are disingenuous.