take, for example, this moral statement: if p is virtuous, then p will be happy. nietzsche insists that the opposite is true: if p is happy, then p will be virtuous. “a well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one,’” he writes, “must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions … [h]is virtue is the consequence of his happiness.”. in nietzsche’s view, that which follows from instinct is marked by being “easy, necessary, free,” is good. it is instinct, not conscious effort, which is the hallmark of virtuous behavior. most moral maxims, in nietzsche's view, reflect an absolutist position which suggest that certain moral behaviors are appropriate for everyone irrespective of the unique histories and circumstances of individual moral agents. "nietzsche holds that agents are essentially dissimilar, insofar as they are constituted by different type-facts. since nietzsche also holds that these natural type-facts fix the different conditions under which particular agents will flourish, it follows that one morality cannot be good for all."