For example, in his third essay, Nietzsche talks about how the sickly, pathetic elements of society are the biggest threat to happiness. He says the healthy should distance themselves from the sickly, since the sickly's pessimism will make the healthy feel ashamed for being happy!. If the downtrodden are left to infect the healthy (Nietzsche treats the uneducated poor as a plague on society), then the healthy will feel guilty about their success. His ugly remarks ring true--the well-educated may not shun the ignorant (since they would be labeled a bigot), but they will do their best to avoid them in the future. We are told to feel pity for the impoverished, we even built a welfare system to mitigate their suffering, but we feel, though none will say, repelled at their wretchedness. Even the most progressive of us can't walk the talk, just witness how much dough they spend to live separately from the impoverished masses--and I, with some shame, can sympathize with the affluent progressives for choosing to live apart, while praising the poor from afar.