Nietzsche started this section talking about punishment and says that punishment was a way for creditors to receive reimbursement for the debts which they can’t get back. “an equivalence is provided by the creditor’s receiving, in place of a literal compensation for an injury (thus in place of money, land, possessions of any kind), a recompense in the form of a kind of pleasure – the pleasure of being allowed to vent his power freely upon one who is powerless”(Sect. 5, pp. 64–65), If the debtor fails to pay, the creditor will substitute for something else that he owns for example: his freedom, or his wife.. “The bad conscience is an illness… but an illness as pregnancy is an illness” (Sect. 19, pp.88), bad conscience according to Nietzsche,
