• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    The nihilistic side of me is on board

    What is it that you think nihilism is? Kind of bullshit that it’s so often used as shorthand for “person that does a dark depraved thing”.

    That’s not what nihilism is.

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      Not sure how that was misinterpreted there. Basically the exact initial core definition of it. The belief that nothing fundamentally matters, the values of life in general are cosmically irrelevant, that coupled with the idea that humans are a plague on the planet. Should the population become halved or eradicated by diseases that could have been prevented, I wouldn’t protest.

      But it was a tongue-in-cheek comment, on the internet, on a random post on a little used social media platform.