I'm a Nihilist AMA - Null hates me for some reason

How do you justify your personal morality system? After all, under nihilism we human beings are just meat computers. Any "immoral" act against a person is equal for beating up your keyboard. Do you just go with it since society at large decided? Or you have some justification why morality should be upheld?
 
Just A Butt said:
why even eat food, we should all just curl up and die
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Multiple reasons;
* not eating would cause me more discomfort than eating
* life can be enjoyable and worth living
* you don't need a higher purpose or reason to exist to just keep on existing

Manul Otocolobus said:
Why wouldn't you be considered a cynic rather than a Nihilist?
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Cynicism is seeing that actors act in their self interest above all else, and nihilism is that the world is useless and pointless. They go hand in hand but can be completely separate as well.

wtfNeedSignUp said:
How do you justify your personal morality system? After all, under nihilism we human beings are just meat computers. Any "immoral" act against a person is equal for beating up your keyboard. Do you just go with it since society at large decided? Or you have some justification why morality should be upheld?
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I have no reason to justify my morality system, just principles I suppose. The purpose of life is just to make your life as enjoyable as possible. Stuff like senseless violence and making others' experience worse are wasted effort that don't further my purpose.

Societal morals are just species preservation instincts at work. It would be very counterintuitive for an individual of a species to act against the preservation and survival instincts of their own species, and they may experience ostracization from the species and other negative consequences. It is in my best interest to confirm to the common morality system so I can be a accepted member of my species.
 
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I always figured nihilism just means there's no objective, provable value on Life itself as a transient, indefinite thing. Which is true, to me. You can totally be that kind of nihilist and yet enjoy life to the fullest, as an experience. Just read a Jack London book. Especially the Sea-Wolf. Dude was on the fence between the pricelessness of Life - because it's the only one you'll ever get, therefore rare beyond any value - and its total and utter bankruptcy, because there's infinite other life waiting to be born to replace you.
 
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Do you want to kill all the Puerto Ricans in the world?
 
Churchill is often paraphrased to have said that if you aren't a socialist by the age of 30 then you don't have a heart and if you aren't a conservative after that age (or something such) you don't have a brain. This quote and variations of it have been attributed to several quite accomplished individuals.

Thus clearly you lack both and should kys.
 
TheTrumanShow said:
Churchill is often paraphrased to have said that if you aren't a socialist by the age of 30 then you don't have a heart and if you aren't a conservative after that age (or something such) you don't have a brain. This quote and variations of it have been attributed to several quite accomplished individuals.

Thus clearly you lack both and should kys.
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I'm not a polititard. I have no reason to be a pawn in someone else's battles. I have better things to do than fight over trivial shit.

People who are into politics are retards and are no smarter than a spider monkey.
z0mb0 said:
how is it working for you?
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Good.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
No. Fatalism is just arrogance with a hint of schizophrenia.
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So you're a nihilist but you don't believe in predestination? You don't think that some people are uniquely born good or evil, that we all choose the roads we follow and aren't lead down them through suggestion from our biology and environment? What I'm trying to say is how do you know there's not something in that mind and body of yours that dictates your freewill like a program? From a slight twitch in your thumb to the words you say, how do you know it's not just a reaction? How do you know the choices you make are not already decided beforehand by fate itself?

Say there's a 4 dimensional being that is capable of going from the beginning to end of the universe and interacting with it. Say they did nothing and just watch the universe play out again and again, would it always turn out the same? Is anything completely random? And if there ain't no 4 dimensional time wizard, then how can anything change from its current course of actions?
 
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