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Originally Posted by windsock
It's not a guarantee, but one could assume that the pointlessness of existence would become so pervasive within the nihilist's psyche that that perceived pointlessness would flip into an urge to remove all things meaningless.
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That's a silly assumption. Why would they remove all that they find meaningless, as a way to create meaning when they've already recognized life and everything around them as meaningless?
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That, or they would perceive their actions as inconsequential and therefore the destruction of life similarly so.
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That's closer to the mark, but that's not really a logical conclusion of nihilism. It's a neutral philosophy, so you can draw whatever conclusions from it that you will.
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That's all hypothetical though and I think it's more safe to say a "true nihilist" would simply be an immobile husk as no actions other than passive ones would be ultimately pointless to them.
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You're equating nihilism with defeatism again. The "true nihilist" is simply someone who recognizes the meaninglessness of the universe. There's no moral code attached to it in the same way that there isn't an inherent moral code attached to climate science. It's a base observation, where you take it is on you.