Full Idea
Formerly one employed morality for preservation: but nobody wants to preserve any longer, there is nothing to preserve. Therefore an experimental morality: to give oneself a goal.
Gist of Idea
Morality used to be for preservation, but now we can only experiment, giving ourselves moral goals
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §260)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.150
A Reaction
This strikes me as the essence of Nietzsche, and the relativist position. Exciting and dangerous. Let's kill someone (Gide). Take drugs (Manson). Betray friends (Genet). Be altruistic…?