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> Let's suppose for a moment you're mistaken. How would you recognize evidence to the contrary, were you to receive it? If you met a nihilist, you'd dismiss the
by adasdasdas 3y ago
> Let's suppose for a moment you're mistaken. How would you recognize evidence to the contrary, were you to receive it? If you met a nihilist, you'd dismiss them, right? It's an approximately unfalsifiable construction.
I think it's almost tautological. But most people are on a spectrum, there are extremely nihilistic people who still care about their mothers for example. But yea, I think that the spectrum of nihilism is just the inverse of the spectrum of willingness to live.
> presupposing that a life of suffering should be ended
I'm not prescribing action, I just think it usually ends up this way.
> An example of a line of thinking you might accept; a nihilist could decide go on living, just because they feel like it.
I believe many people live like this, but not because they are a nihilist, but because they don't do introspection and/or take meaningful things in life for granted, because just a tiny bit of introspection would reveal that there are many many things you find meaningful in life, even if its something basic like, security, health, or peace. If you take these things away from a person, they will probably contemplate their existence and try to figure out why they should go on with life.
- maxbond 3y agoI'm gunnuh be blunt, and I mean no offense, but from what I've read of your arguments in this & adjacent subthreads, it seems you don't really understand what nihilism is and are actually talking about depression and suicidal ideation. You're saying very insensitive things about real people and a very touchy subject, and you've had multiple people explain to you at length what it is you've misunderstood about nihilism. I think you should take a step back and take another look at that, I'm not sure you've accurately estimated the weight of your words or the sturdiness of your foundation. This is as one human being to another, if I think I recognize a certain pattern of thinking and am asking you to reevaluate it, it's only because I've had that pattern of thinking in my own mind and someone else has drawn my attention to it in the past.
- adasdasdas 3y agoYou're right in that I might be callous in the way I write, but meaning/purpose is very relevant to life and death, and I really dislike when people spread a message of meaninglessness in the form of nihilism. Now there might be language challenges here, but I believe that people with narrow definitions of meaning will struggle to find meaning because a persons thinking is somewhat bound by language. My view here is largely inspired from Camus[0] [0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/#SuiResAbs https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/#SuiResAbs