Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?

[SenseMaker007]

You see, though, that's how I think of moral nihilists. They are "atheists" about morality. I think error theorists qualify.

I don't see gnostic/strong atheists as nihilistic about God if they have positive reasons and evaluations to believe that God doesn't exist.

Any atheist, whether agnostic or gnostic is going to claim (really by default) that all statements of fact about gods are false. If they believed otherwise, (ie. that certain statements about God can be/are true) then they would necessarily be theists. Likewise with error theorists...

Babies are atheists and they don't make any claims or evaluations at all.

Do you not think there's a difference between denying X and thinking X isn't the sort of thing that can be affirmed or denied?

Perhaps an even better analogy is that a moral nihilist is to morality as a theological noncognitivist is to God.

Error Theory is a form of cognitivism ... and that's why I don't think it can be truly nihilistic. I think that all forms of nihilism about X must necessarily be noncognitivist about X otherwise it's not empty enough to be nihilistic.

I also think that the reason why nihilism about anything ultimately makes no sense is because noncognitivism makes no sense.