greenblue wrote:
well, I was wondering if he might actually be nihilist.
Intensely skeptical. True nihilism has internal contradictions that nihilists do not really escape... unless they have secret methods.
snake321 wrote:
He'll openly admit to being a nihilist, the NWO are nihilists, nihilists are very cunning and witty, very well spoken, but theyr totally self centered and psychotic.
You are just speaking of moral nihilists. I fit more in the category of being a skeptic. If I were a nihilist I would have used the Is-Ought problem and argument from queerness to argue that the very concept of morality is an impossibility.
snake321 wrote:
Of coarse, most nihilist will admit to being nihilist, unless they've got an underlying reason not to, such as to gain someone's trust to exploit.
.... well, unless of course I was trying to allow for some form of morality to exist in order to exploit it. Really though, I think the actual philosophical position you argue against is egoism, not nihilism. Nihilists have no reason to action, egoists have a reason to action and that reason is self-interest.
snake321 wrote:
Only a total nihilist can make a case for justifying slavery,
Not true, past societies made arguments for this, and sources of morality from our past also do not argue against slavery. In fact, the Christian bible, surely not a nihilist document as their preachers screech against the nihilism of postmodernism and the world, does not argue against slavery but rather puts codes for how it should work.
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