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because nihilism is gay

Nihilism is just scepticism that has lost its patience.

>>6271317
Your not being n i h i l i s t i c enough

Depends on who the individual people are
I'd gladly kill 4 capitalists over 1 random person

but i am

>>6271317
Natural law is both intuitively obvious and rationally defensible, so why would I be a nihilist?

>>6271317
I am, anyone who isn't is either stupid or lying to themselves.

Existentialism is just masked nihilism

>>6271382
What is natural law? How is it rationally defensible?

>>6271317
Because I'm a moral nihilist

>>6271450
so you're a nihilist?

>>6271317
Edited for accuracy

>>6271458
When someone calls themselves a nihilist they're almost always referring to existential nihilism

>>6271464
if you're an existential nihilist, you're a moral nihilist.

Say your a nihilist, and suddenly you find out that ife has explicit meaning, say a purpose or goal. then you could question the sorce of that purpose in infinite regress and ultimately end up in the same place.

>>6271467
But not all moral nihilists are existential nihilists

>>6271467
>life has no meaning therefore opinions are impossible

>>6271470
Why are there necessarily no intrinsic morals if life does have intrinsic meaning?

Because outrage and indignation is more fun.

>>6271477
Life may not have meaning, but it has value

Moral nihilism is the only true nihilism

Being sad that life doesn't have "meaning" is babby's first despookifying

>>6271489
Spooks may not exist, but they are real.

>>6271492
Only the ones you let influence you

>>6271492
What's your point? A big mistake people make with spooks is thinking they're bad things to have.

>>6271500
The ones that assert themselves against your cause are certainly bad to have.

>>6271505
They're not necessarily good either, they're just there, however; chances are you'll be losing out if you completely abstain from then.

>>6271492

>>6271540
I was parodying his logic, not asserting spooks. I'm an egoist, brah.

>>6271608
I know, I just wanted to share my crudely made political compass with you. :(

>>6271612
It made me laugh though, so you have that going for you

Oh but I am

>>6271382
>intuitively obvious

It's almost entirely a modern conception that arose with post-Enlightenement thinking, hardly obvious or universal in any sense of the word.

I'm a Christian existentialist

>>6271468
and your point is?

>>6271822
kill yourself

>>6271317
nihilism is just pluralism seen by edgy teenagers

>>6271863
I'm not a nihilist

>>6271880
So?

Because there's nothing or worse, and nihilists are of the second case.

>>6271324
This.

>>6271317
Misologist!

>>6271317
I'm not 14 any more

>>6271905
Suicide is an act of nihilism or a desperate hedonism

I'm neither

>>6271382
>rationally defensible
no it's not

>>6271800
lol, natural law and the tradition it draws from has been around a lot longer than the Enlightenment. Should have started with the Greeks.

Nihilism is inhuman in nature, just as much as extreme rationalism. It's a philosophy worth acknowledging, but not worth pursuing.

>>6272769
>inhuman

How's it going over at Buzzword central?

>>6272769
This isn't a checklist, it's an adventure to learn about where you fit in, your crosshairs for philosophy are so wrong.

>>6271317
Too exhausting. Plus they are pussies.

>Getting sad over the fact life has no meaning
Babies first philosophical feel

>>6272769
>inhuman
good god the ideological implications of that little word