Originally Posted by windsock

Still a philosophy based in pessimism lmao. Just because you find an optimistic altruist to be subjectively wrong doesn't mean they are. Just cause I'm an atheist doesn't mean the absence of God is a proven fact, it's just I've assembled enough scientific evidence and personal opinion to make the (what I believe to be) reasonable assumption that there is no deity. The same goes for you and your nihilism, which in some ways is even more subjective than religious belief as it lies in the realm of philosophy. You can go on and on all day about how dumb those gall-darned Christians and optimists are but it doesn't change the fact that not only your belief is as subjective as theirs but that you're on the pessimistic end.

I feel like you're getting personally insulted by my use of the term pessimism because you think I'm calling you a cantankerous grouch. I'm not. Again, I'll pull up Wikipedia's definition of philosophical pessimism:



Bold lines up with pessimism and nihilism's linkage, italics lines up with the nihilist spectrum I discussed previously, and impact lines up with you not being a Scrooge for being a nihilist.