# 125 explained — Beyond Good and Evil

> Chapter companion for Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

## What happens

A brief aphorism on the psychological cost of revising one's judgment of another person, framing it as a transactional inconvenience for which the judged person is held responsible.

## Themes in this chapter

### Psychology as the Fundamental Science

Examines a subtle, self-interested mechanism of human psychology related to judgment and social accounting.

## Character check-ins

### The Narrator

Presents the psychological observation about the inconvenience of changing opinions of others.

## Key lines

> When we have to change an opinion about anyone, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

If we are forced to revise our view of someone, we resentfully blame them for the mental effort and social recalibration required.

_Highlights a selfish, almost economic, view of interpersonal judgment._

## Links

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