(August 29, 2016 at 11:16 am)Panatheist Wrote:(August 29, 2016 at 8:57 am)Jesster Wrote: No. Nihilism is the belief that nothing matters. While morals would not exist if we weren't here to put value into them, they do matter once we are here to define them. There's just no grand morality behind it all.
Think of it like an economic system. If society didn't exist, would economics exist? No. They only come into play once there is a society to apply them to. It's not a force that actually exists in the universe. It's a concept that we create. That doesn't mean that it doesn't matter once we have a reason to use it.
Morals only matter in that they protect what we value, right? Why does a nihilist think that doesn't matter?
Because a nihilist would say that it's meaningless. A nihilist is a pessimist. That's not at all what I'm saying.
Morals have an explicit value to us because they help us survive as a whole. Morality is just the label we throw on an agreed-upon method to allow us to survive as a species longer. Behavior patterns like that happen because of evolution. I fail to see what's so meaningless or pessimistic about that.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
