Species, Member, Harm

If Nietzsche had lived another 100 years, he might have reconsidered two claims in The Gay Science #1--that individual lives are not to be taken seriously, and that individuals are incapable of harming the species.  For, those claims are challenged by the genocides, nuclear brinkmanship, and environmental crises, that have arisen since the 1880s.  But, his mistake is not merely factual--by conceiving the Species-Member relation as antithetical, and not as Whole-Part, he cannot recognize that any harm to any Member is also harm to the Species.