stunting

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Definition

See stunt.

He, however, who, with opposite requirements (no longer Epicurean) and with some divine hammer in his hand, could approach this almost voluntary degeneration and stunting of mankind, as exemplified in the European Christian (Pascal, for instance), would he not have to cry aloud with rage, pity, and horror: "Oh, you bunglers, presumptuous pitiful bunglers, what have you done! — Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

acrobatics, aerobatics, stunt flying

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